Imagine for a moment that the day has come. It is your birthday. Everyone around you has been getting busier and busier in honor of your day. Now the day has arrived, but hardly anyone speaks to you! In fact, some people around you never speak one single word to you all day. Parties take place, and in fact, some of the parties that are supposedly celebrating your birthday turn out to dishonor you. Cards are sent in honor of your birth. Gifts are exchanged in honor of your birth. And yet, somehow, you are pretty much left out of the celebration of your own birthday. The question is, “So how would that make you feel?” I just can’t help but wonder if perhaps that is just how the Lord Jesus must feel at times. So my challenge to each of us is to keep Christ in Christmas. Make Him the focus. Read the Christmas messages from His Word in Matthew 1 and Luke 1 and 2. Give a special gift to a ministry or an individual in honor of the Lord. Really listen to the words of the Christmas music. Determine to celebrate the Lord Jesus in honor of His birth.
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