Honoring Christmas 2023

Honoring Christmas in 2023

Was 2022 a good, bad or an okay year for you? Was it one that you’d rather not live through again. As we are preparing to enter yet another new year, we have just finished celebrating Christmas. That brings me to my title honoring Christmas in 2023. As children and now adults we have read many books throughout our lives and the one I am most fond of and remember the best is the Christmas Carol.

Ebeneezer Scrooge was a wealthy man who was just plain mean, he had time for nothing but making money. He couldn’t take time for mourning his partner Marley, time for Christmas or helping those less fortunate than he was. He even lost the love of his life because he couldn’t see what was right in front of his eyes.

As we know he was visited by three spirits on Christmas eve that showed him his past, present and future. When Scrooge was forced to see what he had done, and force with his own mortality he woke up on Christmas morning a different man. He made a promise that morning that he would try his best to honor Christmas in heart all year long. In my opinion this is one of the best stories of redemption there ever was and still is.

How do we honor Christmas in our lives during the year other than just at Christmas. Do we help the less fortunate, do we honor Jesus with more of our time, more praise and worship. Do we honor Him with more of our time in bible study. Do we honor Him by helping others, by witnessing, by showing love to our neighbors.

How will you honor Christmas in 2023? Will you forget the baby Jesus that came to die for you until next Christmas? Will forget about Him until Easter? Will you forget about Him until something bad happens and you need Him. He deserves more honor than we could possibly give Him.

For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! Psalm 100:4

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