Christmas – What Day is it Really?

Could you imagine if someone gave you a gift, you took it, placed it in a “safe” place, but then forgot about it? Then, decades later, after you had passed this life, someone finds that gift, still wrapped and unopened while going through your estate. “What a waste,” they would think!

I can remember listening to debates about when Christmas day really happened throughout my life. I always thought they were silly and a waste of time; this year has changed that. I believe it is imperative for everyone to understand when Christmas happens…from God the Father’s perspective!

The Father did not send the Son to give Him a trip to the planet earth; They created it! Jesus came to this world to offer all an opportunity to experience a real and living relationship with the God of the universe. Not because He needs the company or craves creatures to worship Him. God needs nothing and is not so petty to crave praise as we humans do. His motive was solely one of selflessness. He created human beings to share what only He could share – eternal and abundant life with a creation who could choose or reject that offer. 

That is one of the essentials of true Love, free choice. God did all the work, sacrificed Himself to pay the debt of sin that humanity chose instead of Him. After living with sin and experiencing its devastation, some of His creation might choose to return to Him. He offered it free to us, very costly for Him!

Christmas happens when fallen human beings experience the reality of what it was for. Otherwise, it is nothing more than a day on the calendar…until the day we stand before our God in our unforgiven state and realize we never opened the gift…What a Waste!

Jesus Christ desires to share life, Eternal Life, with anyone that desires it. You can’t earn it; you can’t buy it; you can only receive it! Come as you are, warts and all, there is nothing you have done, said, or thought that would surprise Him. He is omnipotent! 

There is only one person beyond His forgiveness, one that refuses to accept it! 

Take a moment right now, consider, where will you be 1 billion years from now? You can choose to be with your Creator; it is up to you. You can settle this once and for all, right now. God is open to you accepting His invitation. Don’t let your thoughts deceive you. He knows every failure and sin you have stumbled or ran into! You don’t have next year to decide; we cannot guarantee another minute, much less a year.

What question or issue is more important than, “if I exist forever, where will that be?”  

If you choose to believe Christ came, offered His life for you, and are willing to trust in what He did, you can experience the real meaning of Christmas right now. God loves you and is delighted to offer you life with Him. So tell Jesus you trust in what He did for you and thank Him for making you a child of God! Then you will know when Christmas took place!