CHRISTMAS - THE BEST SEASON IN THE WORLD

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While I was growing up in my parents' home, every Christmas, my dad at a point started a tradition of buying a live goat on the eve of Christmas to be slaughtered on December 25 and another live goat on the eve of New Year to be slaughtered on January 1.

This was in addition to other goodies we got then as gifts. There was always so much to eat and drink. This was the experience I had in my family home about the season of Christmas and even in today's world, so many people have similar beautiful stories to tell about Christmas.

I have heard stories of elderly people who said it was only on Christmas day they ate rice or wore their best clothes to Church while growing up as kids.

Even in the office environment, we see organizations dish out so many goodies and bonuses to their staff. Some organizations even pay the December remuneration early enough to allow their staff prepare well for Christmas.

In the Church environment, Christmas carol concerts are organized by the various Choirs who render beautiful songs about the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

I can also recollect one year as a child when the community I resided in decided to go round each home singing Christmas carols to entertain members.

Homes and offices are usually lit with decorations, Christmas trees, cards, lights, and so on and so forth.

There is usually so much giving and shower of love during the season of Christmas.

Dear friend, if you take time to reflect on all I have written so far about the season of Christmas, one thing would be clear to you: the season of Christmas is unique and cannot be compared with any other season in the entire calendar of every year.

In very many cities of the world, Christmas is celebrated with a lot of fanfare. One thing should be clear in all this, and that is, the season of Christmas is simply the best in the world.

Can you think of any other period of the year that brings so much joy to people than the season of Christmas? I believe, just like me, you cannot come up with any other period of the year more joyous than Christmas.

I have good news for you dear friend - the season of Christmas is unique and the best simply because it is about our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

The very essence of Christmas is the celebration of the fulfilment of God's promise to mankind to send a Saviour into the world to redeem us from the sin of disobedience by Adam and Eve at the beginning in the Garden of Eden.

If God did not have mercy to send us His only begotten Son to die for our sins, the entire world would have been doomed to perish forever in hell fire with satan who deceived man to fall in the first place.

Mankind died spiritually with the sin of Adam and Eve and every human being born into the world came with the same spiritual deadness inherited from Adam and Eve, our first parents.

Christ Jesus had to come to die on the Cross of Calvary to break the spiritual deadness and restore mankind to reconciliation with God. Christ was born into the world for this very purpose.

This is what Christians celebrate on Christmas day - the birth of Christ Jesus into the world.

With all the fanfare, gifts, showers of love and sinful practices many undertake in today's world, Christmas is about the love God showed us through His Son, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Let us therefore forever be grateful to God for what He did for us as we celebrate every Christmas.

Christ Jesus came to die for everyone and not just Christians alone. It is therefore imperative for everyone to understand this fact and rejoice in what Christ Jesus did by His sacrificial death on the Cross of Calvary.

Every human being can ONLY be free of the spiritual deadness inherited from Adam and Eve by believing genuinely in what Jesus did on the Cross of Calvary, repenting from sin, confessing and forsaking sin, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and living a life in strict obedience to Jesus' commands as contained in the Holy Bible, the Word of God.

Dear friend, this is what Christians should explain to themselves and non-Christians alike. This is what our Lord Jesus Christ expects us to do - spread the Good News or Gospel of Repentance and Salvation so every human being, irrespective of race, skin colour, occupation, social status, etc will understand the essence of Christmas and celebrate it with so much respect for God Almighty.

Now, dear friend, you know the uniqueness of Christmas, the beauty of Christmas and the very essence of Christmas. Will you keep the Good News to yourself or share it with others as I have just done?

May the good Lord bless you as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus' Mighty Name, Amen.


Gabriel Ama.

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