Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

We celebrate Christmas every year as a constant reminder of how much God do love us, John 3:16. But what are we doing with commemoration of Jesus birth is so wrong. Instead of letting it be a reflection of freely given, freely receiving with love, big company businesses are capitalizing on making profits, people are spending excessive money especially those who are trying to make ends meet and hardly can afford it on gifts in hopes it will be appreciated, playing Santa Claus, when instead the gift is rejected and sometimes regift unknowingly, feeling obligated to give gifts to others who has given to us…the greatest misleading of the meaning of Christmas is in how we all celebrate it. We promote a very negative and corrupt meaning of Christmas. For some the giving or receiving is not even sincere.

If we can’t take the name of the Lord in vain, how dear we take His the meaning of His birth in vain. No wonder so many has fallen away from faith. We are to be the salt of the world and some of us as Christians has lost our saltiness, Matthew 5:13. Jesus is returning and we are to be the trumpets blowing, prophesying and proclaiming the the kingdom. Instead we are consumed by the worldliness trying so much to fit in, that we’re in the world and being of it, when scripture declares we should be the opposite, John 17:11-15 and 1John 2:15-17.

What are to be doing, especially for Christmas? We are to be following Christ, not making it about ourselves, but the less fortunate, those that are in need, like the hungry, cloth the naked, visit the sick and prisoners, praying for them, find the lost sheep…sacrifice yourself in service to the Lord almighty. To give with love without counting the cost. The Lord our God has sent His only begotten son as a saviour to us a great example of how we should be towards one another. When come to Christmas also all wars in the world, bickering, arguments, fighting, hate, vengeance, bitterness…should come to an end at Christmas. Love, forgiveness, healing, restoration of all broken relationship and unity should be the greatest gift we can give to each other in making our world better.

We praying for the return of Jesus to make everything to be made right. But what if it all begins with us? We have to start by resisting the devil that he will flee from us, James 4:7. Instead in our weakness we are lured into his lies, seductions and temptation…which all stem from us not truly knowing and understand who we are in Christ. Our weakness (sin) makes us dependent on God, that why we must do all things through Him, who’s power is made perfect in our weakness, 2 Corinthians 12.

Humanity are rechargeable in our mind, body and soul by the power of God, if only we reach to Him, our Father, who’s arms are stretched out wide to embrace us. Let’s run into the loving arms of the Father, rather the paths that leads us astray, that broad path, Matthew 7:13-14.