During this time of year, there so many controversies over Christmas. First we’d hear things on the radio, then they started to creep in through television and now they're delivered right into our e- mail-box. Oh I’m sure you’ve heard the same ones as I.

“Christmas really can't be this time of year, because Jesus wasn’t born in December.” And others say that we shouldn’t follow the traditions because they all have pagan origins. And of course, “Christmas has become too materialized,” (No comment there), but let’s stop today and take a step beyond all of that.

Take a minute and think of what the bottom line of Christmas is really all about.  Is it not about The God of the universe, taking on the form of man, coming to walk within our sinful world and becoming flesh to live and to die for our sins that we may live with Him forever?

Then, if that is what Christmas is really about to you, then let all the other stuff go for now. And before December 25^th finally gets here, take a heart check. See what’s in your heart. What’s the bottom line of what you are celebrating? No, you don’t need t share it with me or anyone else. It’s just between you and Jesus.  

And if you already know that the excess is just fluff, then let it fly away like the flurry of snowflakes that flutter around then fall to the ground. But, if Jesus is not the bottom line of what Christmas is to you, then let this year be a first. Let this be the greatest Christmas of your life as you ask Him to come and live inside of  you forever.

Allow Him to warm the fire of your heart or even rekindle the flame that’s been smothered by sin and shame. Allow Him then to fan that flame that you may begin to develop a relationship with him forever both now and forever. Amen.