Christianity and Christmas

This article was published in full in several national dailies some years back with its titled: “Christianity: Beyond Christ Birthday”, but the writer decided to bring a part of it to refresh our memories. Saint Paul said, “I am a Christian,

but if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and have not love, I am nothing”. One should concur to that declaration to an extent.

Christ’s principles are simple (righteousness). But To appreciate how simple and sweet-tasting spiritual truth can be, we need only to read His saying. And to know with what kindness the spiritually brawny treat the spiritually frail, we need but to remember how Jesus spoke to Mary Magdalene.

 Today, Jesus is subject men often talks about but rarely understand. As my eyes and mind flips through men and women, I can hardly trace many of those soft deeds of mercy—love your neighbour as yourself and so on -- which Jesus taught His followers to practice. Yet, we are in the faith, we are in the vine-yard; every Sunday our cathedrals fill up to suffocation.  We seem to be men and women who have become excessively Bible bound, narrowing life down to matter of script. True holiness must flow from within us, and not in stonewalls and timbered roofs in Jerusalem that we visit in hilarity. 

The truth is that we cannot be celebrating Christ’s birthday (Christmas) without offering Him a personal gift of at list a soul; which he mostly desire of us.

Christianity is love, the whole foundation must be built on love. It is the message from the beginning: “that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one and slew his brother because his own works are evil, and his brother’s righteous” (1 John 3:11-12).

“Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law” (Romans 13:8). The question now is: “are we really practicing this great doctrine?  Let us not deceive ourselves; we cannot escape the great judgment if we grossly neglect his great law.

   Brethren, we are suffering because we have drifted from our right hub, we have left the nipple to sucking the side, we find no rest, but chasing a transient shadow of splendor while the supple and simple principles of our Lord Jesus is neglected.

We need to re-examine ourselves and change for the better. The world is in a new birth; we experience it every day. It is time Christians know this and pedal back to the first love left behind by our Lord Jesus Christ. Truly, Christ’s principles and rules are the contents of The Holy Bible. That is all.  And, of course, that alone is Christianity