“CHRIST’S DAY!”

John 5:30-47                          (ESV)

“30 "I can do nothing on MY own. As I hear, I judge, and MY judgment is just, because I seek not MY own will but the will of HIM WHO sent ME.

31 If I alone bear witness about MYSELF, MY testimony is not true.

32 There is another who bears witness about ME, and I know that the testimony that he bears about ME is true.

33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the TRUTH.

34 Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

36 But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the FATHER has given ME to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about ME that the FATHER has sent ME.

37 And the FATHER who sent ME has HIMSELF borne witness about ME. HIS voice you have never heard, HIS form you have never seen,

38 and you do not have HIS WORD abiding in you, for you do not believe the ONE whom HE has sent.

39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about ME,

40 yet you refuse to come to ME that you may have life.

41 I do not receive glory from people.

42 But I know that you do not have the love of GOD within you.

43 I have come in my FATHER’S name, and you do not receive ME. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only GOD?

45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the FATHER. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

46 For IF YOU BELIEVED MOSES, you would BELIEVE ME; FOR HE WROTE OF ME.

47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe MY words?"”

“The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin.”  The preceding sentence is from a secular website that doesn’t hold the Bible to be TRUTH; the WORD OF THE LIVING GOD!  But even they recognize that “CHRIST’S DAY” is far more than their vocabulary can describe!  The SON OF GOD has ALWAYS BEEN, not just of “fairly recent origin”!

As a Believer that JESUS CHRIST is GOD the SON WHO came to earth explicitly to redeem mankind for those whom the FATHER chooses, the commercialization of “CHRIST’S DAY” is greatly disturbing to me.  JESUS, my Savior and LORD, left HIS Heavenly throne to inhabit a body of flesh, live a PERFECT, HOLY life for 33 years, die a sacrificial death, yet overcame death, Hell and the grave at a price of having GOD THE FATHER reject HIM because HE was bearing my sin, all because HE loved us so much!

And now today we are allowing “this world” to trivialize “CHRIST’S DAY” as a celebration of debt, partying, and gift-giving, while we should be celebrating the TRUE Gift HE gave to us, AND NOTHING ELSE!  And I am just as guilty as the next person, I don’t give HIM proper praise and adulation on “CHRIST’S DAY”!  Instead I get caught up in making sure my family has gifts that are up to a certain standard of “this world” when I should have my eyes focused on  JESUS and “CHRIST’S DAY”!  

JESUS spoke in the Scripture above that we have the Scriptures.  And yet we don’t know enough about “CHRIST’S DAY” to celebrate it for what HE did for us!  It’s not about Santa Claus.  It’s not about the exchanging of gifts.  It’s not about family get togethers (as much as they mean to me)!  It IS about recognizing that “For our sake HE (GOD) made HIM (JESUS) to be sin WHO knew no sin, so that in HIM (JESUS) we might become the righteousness of GOD.“ (2 Corinthians 5:21).  That is why we have “CHRIST’S DAY”, regardless of what we have allowed it to be turned into!!!