{"id":2602,"date":"2020-12-24T19:48:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T19:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2020-12-24T19:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T19:48:56","slug":"a-message-for-this-christmas-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allthecounselofgod.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/24\/a-message-for-this-christmas-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message For This Christmas Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note how clear and sharp is the doctor\u2019s diagnosis! \u201c\u2026 unto you \u2026\u201d-that is personal. \u201c\u2026 this day \u2026 \u201c-that is present. \u201c\u2026 a Saviour \u2026 \u201d -that is precious.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is all the difference in the world between Christmas and Christ. Millions make a holiday over the former and forget the latter. Christ is frequently crowded out of this special day, meant to remember Him the most. Holiness is hidden beneath the holly. The wreath is hung higher than the cross. Often the Saviour is replaced by Santa Claus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet without Christ, there is really no Christmas. Without Him, there is nothing to sing about or rejoice over. Outward merriment all too quickly becomes inward mockery to the starved soul. It is time for us to tum back to that perfect prescription of the old doctor and spend a quiet moment with his words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 unto you \u2026\u201d<\/strong> This is a personal message, and there can be no evasion nor denial. What have you done with the Lord Jesus Christ for this occasion? You have remembered family and friends with gifts, but have you remembered Him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 this day \u2026\u201d<\/strong> Yes, this day, this very moment! Thoughts of Christmas fill the air, and there is at least the passing acknowledgment of His person. But do you know that the thoughts of Christ concerning you are those of grace and eternal life? He offers you the most wonderful Christmas gift available- the gift of your soul\u2019s salvation. What will you do with Christ this Christmas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026 a Saviour \u2026\u201d<\/strong> Yes, that is the power source of the prescription. The road from Christmas to Calvary is really a short one, for this Babe of Bethlehem came to die as the Sin-Bearer upon Calvary\u2019s cross. Not \u201cSanta\u201d but the Saviour; not \u201cClaus\u201d but Christ. It is only the man or woman, the boy or girl, who has truly been to Calvary, whose sinful heart has been broken at the foot of the cross, whose life has been cleansed and transformed, who can really and truly know the blessed joy of a \u201cheavenly Christmas\u201d within the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How precious are those words, \u201c\u2026 unto you \u2026 this day \u2026 a Saviour \u2026\u201d,<\/strong> when the heart is open to receive Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is it with you? Do you belong to the Lord? Or are you still passing by the manger, forgetting that the Holy Babe long ago climbed from His cradle and died on the cross for your redemption. \u201cFor all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God\u201d, but we are \u201c\u2026 justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus\u201d (Romans 3:23-24).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make this redemption your own by accepting into your heart God\u2019s gift, the Christ of Christmas, as your personal Saviour.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"