Surhozo Sakhamo
High School Colony Kohima
Christmas is another time where we buy gifts for someone whom we really love and care for and also for the needy. When we buy gifts we make it sure that it is something they don’t have or which they will really like. Than we wrap it beautifully which would gives smile on their faces. What best can we do this Christmas?
Many people think that Christmas is the season we clean up and decorated our house and streets beautifully with stars and lights, giving gifts and sharing Christmas cakes, buying new clothes and also a time when many have would have finished their yearly works and take rest. But it is something much more than that. It is a time to remember the love of God, who sent His promised only Son for you and me 2000 years ago to die for our sins (John 3:16).
It is sad truth that during this Godly season many people does even more what we shouldn’t be doing. For many it is a season to enjoy in worldly pleasures, for some it is a season to spent time with family and for few it is a time to remember God’s love truly.
What is Christmas when we decorated our house with lights and star as a sign that Christ is born in this house and in that same house you are doing all kinds of things that God would hate. What would the star on our house mean when your family is at messed with God? What would that star mean when your relationship is at messed with God and you still didn’t put an effort to make right with Him? Your heavy meal, decorations, new dresses and precious gifts are not just the signs of your joy receiving your Savior?
What best can we do this Christmas? If we were to give Jesus a gift this Christmas, what could we give Him that He would appreciate? After all He is the Creator of all things (Hebrews 1:2) and the one who holds all things together (Colossians 1:17).
Prophet Micah lived in a day like ours: (a). When Israel is facing tensions from Assyria, Egypt, and the Philistines. (b). Moral corruption, where rich explode the poor, corrupt leaders and false prophets. When men falls away from God and could not do anything good to save himself anymore, Jesus came to bridge the gap so that men could reach God once again. But God does not delight in quality of sacrifice, quantity of sacrifice or the religious rituals (Micah 6:6,7).
It is this time we remember that “in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself” 2 Cor. 5:19. Our best Christmas gift to Jesus would be reconciling with friends, family, staffs, and neighbors and most of all with God. He delights in justice, mercy and humility (Micah 6:8). This is when the true meaning of God sending His Son is fulfilled. Let us remember for why God sent His only Son, and have a meaningful Christmas.
