Christmas is Coming part 1

Celebrate a birthday party but “The Birthday-man” is not there.

“Where is He?”

One day, I went to my boy student party. The house was decorated by all blue trinkets. The blue cake was beautifully seen on the table which some blue balloons on its corner. Back of that, A boy was sitting with a big smile to show the guest that today was a very special day. From his face, I can see the happiness. When we sang a birthday song, He really persuaded us to celebrate this day together. In         “making a wish time”, we all together wished the best of Him. We engage each person in that party.

This event reminds me again what I am doing in this Christmas season. When it comes, we usually decorate our rooms, make some delicious food, drink, or cake. We also use our best, new suits to celebrate it. At that time, when we are in the room party, the light is off and we say, ”Make a wish! Make a wish”. Then, the candle is on but The Birthday Man is not there. We glance each other as asking question, “Where is He”. We are looking to find Him by going around the room to every corner of it. We wait for some hour until we get tired. At the end, we decide to go home and run our own life. We have to go back to our life routine and we already forget about “The Birthday Man”.

This is what happens in the Christian life like us. Christmas is all about a year routine agenda. We are getting tired in preparing the room, food, suit and everything. At the end, we find that the center of this celebration is No one. He is gone. We act like nothing happen. I think many times about it everytime Christmas season comes. Actually, the question is not, “Where is He”. It’s supposed to be, “Where are we?”.  It is clearly said from Matthew 1 : 23 “See the virgin will become pregnant and give the birth to a son. And, they will name Him IMMANUEl”. Immanuel means God be with us. So, If He is with us, who is gone? We or He?.

Christmas is not just about material things, like food, suits or others thing. But it is the day to remind us about the born of the Redeemer, The savior of the world. He came to save the unworthy person like us so that we can have an eternal relation with The Lord. We can conclude that In this celebration, we are the people who are gone at the party.

The places where we have gone are :

1.       We are in a year routine agenda

We already sign the dates in our agenda to prepare this Christmas. We don’t realize until all of this agenda bind our eyes so that we can’t see a Man with a Crown of throne on His head is looking at us to stop. This routine already stole our sight of this Birthday Man. We don’t know the meaning of why He came. He emptied himself to come but what we want to is all about celebration and happiness. We forget about  the suffering (Fil 2 : 7)

2.       We are in our own happiness perspective

God don’t forbid any person for being happy in the Christmas time. We do have to be happy for we are now saved.  Sometimes, the points of our gratitude are about money, education, or success. The center is all about us. The perspective of our happiness is we get something what we want. The Lord did it differently. Every person wants to have a wealthy life. But Christ emptied Himself until gave himself to us. He wanted to die so that we can be saved. He lost what human wants so much which is Life.

Therefore in this Christmas season may we take a day to rethink about the meaning of the coming of The Lord so that we can engage together in this celebration. This is what I feel when celebrate my boy students’ birthday. I pray that we can grow more be Like Christ. Amen …..