Do you ever feel like the drama and stress of Christmas are just about to kill you? You know what I mean, right? It starts before your thanksgiving turkey is digested. People queue up outside department stores and wait for hours in order to capitalize on the outrageous deals of retail’s nastiest and most lucrative day in the US: Black Friday. I mean, people literally get trampled to death in this country because they are in a competition to try and get the best deal on some stupid something made out of plastic and wires. Really? On top of all that, you have the tensions brought on by extended family, the sinking feeling in your gut that you may not financially make it to the New Year and the guilt of eating way too much bad-for-you food, right?! It gets so bad for some people that you often hear folks say that they’re just trying to “survive Christmas.” Wow. What a sad thing! Christmas is a joyous time of celebration because God came down here for us! We shouldn’t be simply trying to ‘survive Christmas,’ rather we should be savoring Christmas. The funny thing is, the reason we should savor it is because Christ didn’t plan on surviving it. You see, Jesus was a baby born to die. The word ‘Christmas’ literally means, “the mission of the Christ.” Jesus came here on purpose with a plan to not survive Christmas. In the tenth chapter of the book of Hebrews, it says that when the Christ came into the world, he had Psalm 40 in His little infant mind, which says, “You gave me a body and I’m here to do your will.” He intended to die for us.
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