Christmas time with the emphasis on Christ

Here we are at the time of year every one wants to celebrate. Yet very few want to acknowledge the true reason for the Holiday!
We run here and there buying gifts to make ourselves look good in the eyes of every one else. We try to out do our last years shopping and giving. We don't even stop to give thanks.
This year we almost skipped over thanksgiving just to get those gifts we will not remember getting in 6 months. While getting the closet ready to hide some gifts we had purchased I saw some gifts we received years ago still tucked on the top shelf. It is if we have become so engulfed in the season we forgot the reason. We buy bigger and better don't let them that give to us, buy better than we bought for them. I see people spend more then they make going ever deeper into debt to buy something bigger and better. Do you notice a pattern.
We received the best gift ever given in the form of a savior. God gave us his son CHRIST! No matter how hard you try you can never out give this gift.
I don't know the exact date Christ was born but we as Christians have allowed the world to enter in and take the Holly day we have chosen to celibrate his birth. We sit back and allow the world to take and to take. What is next? At this rate we might as well hand them our Bibles to them and let them have there way. The word of God has stood from the beginning and will stand when this world is on fire. Give up if you choose I will stand on the word of God! So from me to you Merry CHRISTmas!!