The Meaning of Christmas

Do you remember the Dr. Suess Christmas classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas?” There’s one scene that is stuck in my mind lately. The green meany is looking down over Whoville thinking about the coming Christmas Day, with all its “Noise, noise, NOISE.”

Well, hopefully my heart isn’t two sizes too small, but I find myself turned off by all the “noise” of the Christmas season. There is so much hustle and bustle and commercialization of the Christmas season that it can be difficult to remember that this is a holy time of reflecting on our Savior’s birth.

As we near Christmas, I’m looking forward to things slowing down a bit, so my family and I can worship Jesus Christ, who came to earth as a baby over 2,000 years ago. I encourage you to make the study of the Christmas story a priority in your home this Christmas season.

I’d like to offer a resource to you this week through my podcast. I’ve released a special episode that looks at the two biblical accounts of Christ’s birth: Luke 1-2 and Matthew 1-2. My family and I listen to this each year together, and I encourage you to gather your family together and do the same. I find turning to God’s Word and listening to the Christmas Story in God’s own words really helps me focus on the true meaning of Christmas. God loved us so much that He gave His only Son Jesus to pay the debt for our sins that we could not pay, so that whoever believes in Jesus as their Lord and Savior alone will not perish but have eternal life! (John 3:16, 11-25-26; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 Peter 1:3-5). What a gift God has given us!

I hope you and yours have a wonderful, worshipful Christmas!