How to Have a Truly Blessed Christmas

While our Victorian ancestors lived meager lives compared to ours today, their celebration of Christmas was no less genuine. While we worry what color lights to drape around our Christmas trees, how far apart each bulb should be, or whether they blink or stay lit, the mid-eighteen hundreds found homemade decorations adorning the trees. If one were blessed to have them, candles perched precariously on the branches of a freshly timbered pine – lit only on Christmas Day and New Years Day.

The birth of the Lord, Jesus Christ, stood as the center of worship and adoration. I sometimes envy the celebration back then because the air was filled with the spirit of giving. People didn’t flip on the TV to listen to the weather or pop in a movie to get in the Christmas mood. Homemade gifts, perhaps one per person, stirred the exciting preparation for Christmas Day. They reveled in the true spirit of Christmas – God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Today, once Christmas is past and the gifts are all opened, what then? Embrace the truth of the Bible about Jesus’ birth in Luke, chapter one and two. Believe the message of the great company of angels – the Heavenly host – who proclaimed, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests.”

Have a blessed Christmas!