Hello there again! It’s that time of year again! It’s Christmas!!
To tell you the truth, I don’t know why but it doesn’t feel like Christmas to me. Maybe that’s a good thing, maybe that’s a bad thing. Lol
I just wanted to type up another little note for you guys that I started writing myself in my journal. I would’ve just took a picture of my journal and sent it to you guys, but I thought putting in some time and effort would be a better idea. So here I am on Christmas eve typing this up for you guys.
I guess I wasn’t exactly feeling the Christmas spirit this year because of the stupid stuff like college and school work and the wrestling team and just some general overall stress from family and stuff. But I think it’s also from what I’m seeing around me these days. Everyone is going shopping crazy. I think shopping is definitely fun and giving gifts is awesome but I think it’s just the fact that it is what people think about when Christmas comes around is a thought that doesn’t linger well in my mind.
Christmas is about the celebration of one gift, and many people forget it.
This one gift I have to say, hands down, is the craziest gift I have ever heard of in my life. It is seriously the only gift I know of that can’t be broken, fits anyone and everyone, makes everyone happy, is FREE, and can’t be lost. And wait, there’s one more thing, it’s from someone who loves us more than anyone that we’ve ever known in our entire life.
This gift is love. Not just any love, but the Love of God in the form of His only son Jesus Christ.
It would be nice if you guys could take the time out to read Luke 2:1-20 and Matthew 1:18 – 2:23.
God created this earth and everything on it just for us. And He even created heaven so that there would be a place for us to be with Him. And He did it all because He loved us.
But then something happened, we screwed up and fell into sin. But that didn’t stop God. He found a way around this so that we could be with Him in heaven. And this is the climax of the greatest love story of all time, the reason why we celebrate Christmas. God decided that the only way for us to go to heaven was if He sent his only son Jesus down to earth to die for all of our sins.
Christmas is about celebrating the climax of God’s love for us.
Jesus didn’t come into existence when he first entered the world 2000 so years ago. He always existed and was there when the universe was created. He was being praised and waited upon by the angels 24/7. He was worshipped and lived in a place so beautiful that most of us can only hope to imagine.
God chose a little teenage girl to become the human vessel and mother of Jesus for Him to enter the world. When she was well into her pregnancy Caesar Augustus decreed a census to be taken and that every man take their family back to the town of their fathers to be taxed. So Joseph and Mary were forced to leave Nazareth to travel the 90 so mile trek to Bethlehem on a mule while she was pregnant. And when they got there they couldn’t even find a place to stay but had to go to a stable with a bunch of animals there. I don’t know about you but I’m pretty sure it was cold and that it smelled bad from all the manure and piss of the animals. Christ’s entrance into this world was all but peaceful. The first things he noticed or saw around him were a bunch of barn animals and was surrounded by the smell of their wastes. Joseph and Mary then had to take Jesus and hide in Egypt because King Herod wanted to kill Jesus.
Christmas is a celebration of the birth of a savior into a dying world, a story of love, and the greatest act of humiliation that we could possibly comprehend.
This Christmas, as you spend it with your family, please take the time to remember that we are here to celebrate a gift of love. Christmas isn’t about giving gifts to others but about us accepting and celebrating God’s gift to us.
So let us remind each other and our family this Christmas why we are celebrating it. Let us thank God for His eternal love for us and have a big party because it’s Jesus’ Birthday Party! :]
Merry CHRIST mas
William Poon
Stuy Seekers
Lol. Sry I came out long again XD
To tell you the truth, I don’t know why but it doesn’t feel like Christmas to me. Maybe that’s a good thing, maybe that’s a bad thing. Lol
I just wanted to type up another little note for you guys that I started writing myself in my journal. I would’ve just took a picture of my journal and sent it to you guys, but I thought putting in some time and effort would be a better idea. So here I am on Christmas eve typing this up for you guys.
I guess I wasn’t exactly feeling the Christmas spirit this year because of the stupid stuff like college and school work and the wrestling team and just some general overall stress from family and stuff. But I think it’s also from what I’m seeing around me these days. Everyone is going shopping crazy. I think shopping is definitely fun and giving gifts is awesome but I think it’s just the fact that it is what people think about when Christmas comes around is a thought that doesn’t linger well in my mind.
Christmas is about the celebration of one gift, and many people forget it.
This one gift I have to say, hands down, is the craziest gift I have ever heard of in my life. It is seriously the only gift I know of that can’t be broken, fits anyone and everyone, makes everyone happy, is FREE, and can’t be lost. And wait, there’s one more thing, it’s from someone who loves us more than anyone that we’ve ever known in our entire life.
This gift is love. Not just any love, but the Love of God in the form of His only son Jesus Christ.
It would be nice if you guys could take the time out to read Luke 2:1-20 and Matthew 1:18 – 2:23.
God created this earth and everything on it just for us. And He even created heaven so that there would be a place for us to be with Him. And He did it all because He loved us.
But then something happened, we screwed up and fell into sin. But that didn’t stop God. He found a way around this so that we could be with Him in heaven. And this is the climax of the greatest love story of all time, the reason why we celebrate Christmas. God decided that the only way for us to go to heaven was if He sent his only son Jesus down to earth to die for all of our sins.
Christmas is about celebrating the climax of God’s love for us.
Jesus didn’t come into existence when he first entered the world 2000 so years ago. He always existed and was there when the universe was created. He was being praised and waited upon by the angels 24/7. He was worshipped and lived in a place so beautiful that most of us can only hope to imagine.
God chose a little teenage girl to become the human vessel and mother of Jesus for Him to enter the world. When she was well into her pregnancy Caesar Augustus decreed a census to be taken and that every man take their family back to the town of their fathers to be taxed. So Joseph and Mary were forced to leave Nazareth to travel the 90 so mile trek to Bethlehem on a mule while she was pregnant. And when they got there they couldn’t even find a place to stay but had to go to a stable with a bunch of animals there. I don’t know about you but I’m pretty sure it was cold and that it smelled bad from all the manure and piss of the animals. Christ’s entrance into this world was all but peaceful. The first things he noticed or saw around him were a bunch of barn animals and was surrounded by the smell of their wastes. Joseph and Mary then had to take Jesus and hide in Egypt because King Herod wanted to kill Jesus.
Christmas is a celebration of the birth of a savior into a dying world, a story of love, and the greatest act of humiliation that we could possibly comprehend.
This Christmas, as you spend it with your family, please take the time to remember that we are here to celebrate a gift of love. Christmas isn’t about giving gifts to others but about us accepting and celebrating God’s gift to us.
So let us remind each other and our family this Christmas why we are celebrating it. Let us thank God for His eternal love for us and have a big party because it’s Jesus’ Birthday Party! :]
Merry CHRIST mas
William Poon
Stuy Seekers
Lol. Sry I came out long again XD
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