Christmas week. It's finally here, and we all have things that we need to do. Personally, I think we spend way too much time (not to mention money) on Christmas. We celebrate it as if it's the best holiday ever. To be honest with you, it's not. If Christmas is the only season we celebrate, then it really means nothing. All we have is a little baby...God, to be sure, but still just a baby. We give gifts because Jesus was the greatest gift. But the fact of the matter is that the greatness of the gift of Jesus is not found in the manger, or the stable (or cave) or the shepherds or angels or wise men. It's found some 33 years later at a place that no one likes to be.

We have our Christmas eve services and people come and sing carols and worship God and all is calm and all is bright, but if we never go the five miles from Bethlehem to Golgotha, we kind of miss the point, don't we? Jesus came to this world to save us from our sins. He came to this world as a baby so that He could relate to us, know what we feel and how we go through things. He came as a baby so that He could grow up and tell us that it's all going to be alright now that He's here and now that He's given His life as a ransom for many.

I don't know much, but I know that God is good and that Jesus is His Son and that the Spirit lives in me. What else is there? If you are reading this and you don't know Jesus, then click here for a chance to learn what it really means to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. But whatever you do this Christmas, take some time to focus on the Cross. It's the one thing that Christmas was all about!

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