Today’s Thought “Tis the Season…” G. Ward

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20

Schemes and contrived copy-cat behaviors have citizens experiencing borderline paranoia in the name of being cautious during the holiday season. What was once great respectability and intentional hospitality with most in the month of December is over-shadowed by sensationalistic reports of killings and robberies. Shamefully and without exercising in the spiritual realm of man’s existence, some suggest “the Christ has been eliminated from Christmas.” I say there’s always been a selfish, superficial approach to what should be the recognition of Christ’s entry into the world for mankind’s reconciliation unto Holy God. Perhaps it is a good start to echo “Merry Christmas” vs. “Happy Holidays,” but for those afraid of total surrender unto Jesus for the following eleven months (cf. Heb.10:25, 1 Pe.1:16), it’s not antidotal. In other words, if the rattlesnake bites (representative of the superficial approach to Christmas), there is no other medicine to counteract this condition (cf. Ps. 127:1). You’re soon to die! “For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work” (1 Cor.3:11-13).

Happy Tuesday!