True Meaning of Christmas

Like I said (from my previous entry), I was sitting idly, listening full blast to worship music (which I never used to) in today’s morning commute and a loud dominating voice suddenly overlapped the music from my earphones. So I lowered the volume, and speaking vociforously was some guy (pressumably Christian ) squeezing his way through the immovable crowd, sharing the Word of God in the train.

His voice was utterly familiar. As a matter of fact, I am guilty as one of the faceless crowd who ridiculed him in the past, thinking he was some crazy lunatic. Only this time, with an open mind for God’s Words, I was attentively listening to what this dood had to say. He was reading aloud from one of the Gospels. At first I did not know which chapter and verse he was referring from, until I took out my bible from my bag and prayed to Jesus to help me find the Word…

⁴ Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, ⁵ to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. ⁶ So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. ⁷ And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:4-7

This "crazy lunatic" that I once thought was sharing an important gospel. The message reveals the truth about how people these days had forgotten the true meaning of Christmas. How we have no room for Jesus in our hearts, just like how there was no room for the birth of the future Savior in the inn.

Instead, people are too busy preparing & shopping for presents, parties, decorations and Santa Claus. Somehow the jolly fat man and his sleigh became a pop-icon that replaced Jesus and his birthday. How would you feel if you were the birthday celebrant and people had forgotten to invite you and celebrated your day for someone else?