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PROGRAM D-7730
I find that every Christmas I struggle to not get caught up in the traditional busyness of Christmas and focus more on the meaning of Christmas for us who are Christ-followers. I’ve been suggesting great gift ideas—things we can do to purposely refocus our Christmas celebrations on the more important things. We spend so much time on the lesser gifts but the great gifts are like the one gift – the gift that began back there in Bethlehem. You can’t buy them, and they’re not on anybody’s shopping list. They come as He came—quietly, freely, unexpectedly.
Here’s my last great gift suggestion for this Christmas season: Give someone the gift of the Gospel. Find some way to share the real meaning of Christmas with at least one person. Maybe you do that by sharing your own testimony with someone. Maybe you invite a friend to a program at your church where the Gospel will be clearly presented. Maybe you read Scripture during your family celebrations that tells why Jesus came as a baby. Maybe you invite a coworker to lunch and turn the conversation toward the real meaning of Christmas.
There are so many creative ways to use this season as an opportunity to share the good news—the life-changing truth that Jesus came to die for us. That baby in the manger was God in the flesh, becoming a man so that he could take our place and pay the price of our sins through his death, burial and resurrection.
Make it your goal—your gift this Christmas—to turn your eyes upon the Christ of Christmas. If you and I will keep Christ in Christmas, we will naturally share his gift with others. The light of the world has come. And the Christmas season and celebration presents you as a Christ-follower with a wonderful opportunity to share the good news—that people can be made righteous and have peace with God through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.
