How Satan Is Stealing Christmas

How Satan is Stealing Christmas

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Today, I’d like to do something a little different, something that we can have some fun with as we look at the very real prospect of how Satan is trying to steal Christmas.

Now is the time of year that all the Hallmark Christmas Specials fill our airwaves; along with almost every Christmas special ever devised by Hollywood, along with many of the classic Christmas cartoons that have been the staple of Christmas’ past.

One of the cartoon specials that I always have liked to watch is “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

And what I found somewhat disturbing is that a week ago, the Lord seemed to wake me up around 2 a.m. and laid the ending scene upon my heart as I was wondering, prior to going to bed, what I would talk about once Thanksgiving was over.

Talk about one of those, “Really Lord,” 2 a.m. moments. But he laid upon my heart what happened down there in Whoville when they found everything thing was gone, not even a crumb for the mouse.

But no matter how the Grinch tried, he couldn’t steal Christmas, because as he realized that Christmas isn’t about ribbons and tags, and can come without packages, boxes or bags. And Christmas doesn’t come from a store, but instead, as the Grinch realized that Christmas is about a little bit more.

And this is what I find interesting is that while we know and have seen all these various Christmas specials, there are real lessons for us to learn from them if we become open to hear, and open to share with our family when we sit and watch.

For myself, what the Lord laid on my heart that night is how Satan is trying to steal Christmas.

And the premise of what the Lord began to show me is that Christmas is more than what the world offers as a substitute, rather it’s all about a divine present, a present from God, and that is the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ. And when Jesus Christ is in our hearts, then nothing or no one, not even Satan, can steal the real and true meaning of Christmas.

So, I’d like to ask if you would please take this journey with me and maybe see what Satan is doing.

1. Changing the Meaning

I’d like for us to take a look at this ending scene from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

Let me set the scene, the Grinch has now taken everything, all the presents, every decoration, and all the food for their “whofeast,” and he even took the large Christmas tree in the town square where the Who’s gathered on Christmas morning to sing their Dahoo Dory, welcome Christmas song. And there with his stash, on the top of his mountain lair he heard something he thought he had done away with, and that was the spirit of Christmas.

So take a look at this scene. (WATCH VIDEO)

What Satan wants is to change Christmas’s true meaning into something else, so I kind of think he changed the spelling of this name and thus created the fictional character that all boys and girls love, Santa.

Now when the world thinks about Christmas, Jesus is no longer the main character. Now, whenever the world thinks of Christmas it’s all about Santa and his eight tiny reindeer. Talk about overworked and underpaid. Those little reindeers had it tough, as did the elves that had to make all the toys for millions of little girls and boys.

And even as a child I wondered how all of this was possible, but then in the morning there were all these packages under the tree. Yes, even though I was Dennis the Menace’s doppelgänger, or, he was mine. Hard to say, but I must have done something right.

Satan has made Santa into a substitute Jesus in a way, in that he was said to know everything about us and could do that which is impossible for us as mere humans. Satan had literally made Santa omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.

But only God is all three.

These three are beautifully brought out in Psalm 139

“You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. … Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.” (Psalm 139:2-10 NKJV)