Christmas becomes evil when people bring evil into it. Christmas is not a holiday that people celebrated in the Old Testament as a ritualistic holiday. It is only a holiday in the sense that we are *celebrating* one of the greatest events that has happened it History. If it happens to fall around the same time period as some pagan holiday, so what? What if the early Christians who celebrated Christmas originally picked this day to celebrate because it was countering a pagan holiday? Or, what if this season really does happen to be the time when Christ really was born (see an article by AIG)? We can celebrate Christmas as the pagans in our country do, and it would be a meaningless holiday celebration, or we can go all out and celebrate it and use it to communicate the true meaning of why Jesus came to earth. If we put this into some kind of ritualistic box and try to package it up as a pagan holiday that shouldnt be celebrated, then we are being legalistic. If we use it to express the idols of our hearts (materialism, drinking parties, etc.) then we are leaning toward lawlessness. Both legalism and lawlessness are wrong. But God does want us to celebrate. He wants us to celebrate Him. Celebrating things outside of Him could be idolatry. (Im not talking about birthday parties or celebrating graduations, marriages, babies being born, etc). Just remember, the angels *celebrate* many things, and they were celebrating the birth of Jesus as recorded in Luke 2.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:07:19 +0000
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