Topic: What Spiritual Gain and Value Was The Celebration of
Christmas To You?
I have not seen a celebration in this world that has so
much fuss and buzz in and around it like Christmas. If you plan to fly for a
business trip in and around December because of Christmas you will be forced to
book for the flight somewhere around November, if not, you will not get any
airline that is not fully booked during the Christmas period. People all over
the world travel during Christmas period and it don’t necessarily mean that
they travel because they are Christians. They travel and in fact celebrate
Christmas though they are not Christians, because it is the celebration of the
birth of Jesus Christ the Savior of the world. Also, I have noticed that in
some countries where the authorities doesn’t allow for the celebration in their
land, the citizens of these countries jets out of their land to celebrate
Christmas in other countries. So Christmas period becomes necessarily or
unnecessarily busy period whether you like it or not, you have to put up with
it.
However, Christmas period becomes a busy but profitable
period of time in the life many people around the world. There are handfuls of
people who do not ascribe to the celebration but surely they benefit from it
materially, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. In this part of the
world where I come from, Christmas period is a period when certain appointments
for settling of family issues, community development programs, marriages and
weddings and some massive spiritual camp meetings takes place. In fact many
communities use Christmas period to showcase their cultures and introduce the
latest masquerade they have and people troop out to go and patronize them. This
is because it is the only period that people are on hand and can be brought to
the table for talks, ideas and active participation. Therefore, if one decides
not to celebrate Christmas he or she has to travel and celebrate it directly or
indirectly because the things I mentioned above.
On the other hand, Christmas period is seen as a period
to hustle big time in order to achieve certain objectives in life that will
bring someone to certain plinth in the society. And as a result of this, many
while trying are injured in any way possible and this oftentimes lead to regret
and loss of lives all because of Christmas celebration. And for many youths and
some sexually active adults, it is a period to look for new babes and guys to
sexually mess up with and the result of this in so many occasions are not
palatable to swallow. Somehow, Christmas period has become an atrocious period
because of the mindset people have developed as regards to its celebration.
Many go to Church services not because they are really
intoned with the rhythm and purpose of the service but because they have to
show people that they have arrived and they are putting on the latest Gucci and
any high class designer product. The absent of these kind of materials in their
life would mean that they will not attend the service. A proper scrutiny of
this period of celebration has revealed that it all leans
on the satisfaction of the flesh and the materialism that is attached to it and
the spiritual aspect of it is somehow denigrated to something not vital. There
is this massive movement of people in and out of their locations during this
period and at the end they return without spiritual impact from the
celebration. The question is, of what significance is Christmas celebration
without spiritual gain from it? And you as a believer how did the celebration
affect your spirituality?
Till I come your way again, keep on basking in the arena of indubitable truth!
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