Getting Ready for Christmas

Thanksgiving is over, and already the push is on. Christmas is right around the corner and today we celebrate Black Friday, one of the holiday’s best and busiest shopping days, that is, until Cyber Monday.

So how does our society gets ready for Christmas.

Days will be filled with anxious holiday shoppers trying to get everything on their Christmas list. They’ll go from store to store, or from one Internet site after another all to find that special gift and the best price possible.

So much for a season of comfort and joy!

And let’s not forget the decorations. Many do it up big time. They put up their Christmas lights, Santa and his reindeer on the roof, snowmen on their front lawns, and Jingle Bells for their front door chime.

On the inside of the house Christmas trees and wreaths are put up, Christmas Socking’s are hung with care and every inch of the house is filled with bows, balls, and bulbs.

But before we can decorate we have to do a through cleaning so that we can make room and put up all these wonderful decorations.

And so with a great deal of time and money we ready ourselves for Christmas.

But what about the baby Jesus in the manger part of Christmas?

If it were up to the world they would outlaw the baby, they’d outlaw Jesus. They take Him and the manger scene down in the public square. They forbid any mention of Him. What they want is to take the day where we celebrate the birth of Jesus and make it no longer a holy day but a holiday and celebrate it as a cultic celebration known as “Winter Solstice.”

They would take and actually have taken the name of Jesus or Christ completely out of the holiday and replaced it with the letter “X,” and call it X-Mas. They take the phrase “Merry Christmas,” and replace it with the salutation, “Happy Holiday.”

What has happened to Christmas?