Jesus IS the reason for the season

I just finished reading a blog entry from another site arguing that Jesus is not the reason for the season. It argues that it should be about family, and giving, friends, and love. All well and good. But without Christ, there would be no enjoyment of family, giving, friends, and definitely not love.

Christ is the paramount example of love. Christ is the paramount reason for hope. And to exclude Him from Christmas is just ludicrous.

Christmas is a time to celebrate our Savior's birth. He came, sent by God the Father, to come to this earth to die on the cross for our sins. If He never came, there would be no propitiation of our sins. We would all be guilty of our sin nature and the wages of it would be death. Yes, it's true that Christ was never born on December 25, but it should not negate the fact that this entire season should be celebrated with His birth in mind. It is His birth that represents hope, love, and faithfulness.

I stated that without Christ there would be no enjoyment of family, giving, friends, and love because if there is no hope beyond this life, can we really enjoy the temporal time we have here on this earth?

It is truly unfortunate that people place more emphasis on the lights, decorations, trees, and snappy holiday tunes than the birth of our Lord. But just because the secular world may place it's emphasis on these things does not negate the truth that this season is to remember Christ's incarnation. Sure, some of these things may have been derived from pagan traditions, and we should never compromise our conservative Biblical theology, but Christ's birth is an absolute.

And when this world begins to dilute and eliminate Christ, then we know for a fact that we are in the end times (1 John 2:18). This is exactly what the enemy wants, to make people turn away from Christ. Because we know that there will come a day when the abomination of desolation takes place and someone will sit on the throne of God, declaring himself as God. (Mark 13:14

We are fast approaching that time. But until then, during this Christmas, and every subsequent Christmases to follow, let's never forget that it is because of Christ that we have a reason to celebrate in the first place.