Sunday, December 25, 2011

Whats Christmas?

I'm not big on gifts at Christmas, at least receiving them. I like to give them and to see people enjoy them. Thats what Christmas is about. GOD gave us the greatest gift, his son Jesus. Christmas is about that, redemption through Jesus, eternal life.
One this Christmas, Christians through out the muslim world face persecution. The Arab Spring has brought Winter for those of faith. Jesus said the end time would be one of suffering and persecution. In Europe, and a little here in the USA, muslims are rising up. They are demanding special privledges like Sharia courts. There is no justice in a Sharia court, women have no voice. Under Sharia law, if a woman is raped, it is her word against that of the man, and his word carries more weight, so she is a prostitute, a slut, and risks being stoned for being the victim of a crime. Christians in countries with Sharia law risk beheading or stoning if they try to spread the faith.
I do not know when the end will come, any one who claims he does is a liar. Jesus said there would be signs though, and I believe we are seeing those signs. Israel returned as a nation nearly sixty years ago. Jesus said the generation that say the return of israel would see the tribulation, a terrifying thought. Imagine the evil and darkness of The wars that are raging in Libya, Afghanistan, and other places spreading. Imagine the famine of Ethiopia encompassing the world. Imagine the horrors of the earthquake devastation that hit Japan on a world wide scale. Now imagine that was only the beginning. That time may be twenty years away, or it could all start tomorrow, we do not know. It is up to us though to fight evil when we encounter it whether it is muslims killing Christians in Africa, or drug addicts robbing neighbors in Kansas. Evil only wins when good people do nothing.
So today, resolve to be not merely a good person, but a great one. Let this Christmas be a time of reflection, see the world for what it should be, and resolve to do your part to make that better world we want for our children and grand children. It starts with faith. Have that faith.

1 comment:

Gregory said...

Merry Christmas to you. And I do my part from Montana by spreading the word about islam and muslims as much as I can. I know that my own family tires of hearing me preach about the ugliness of that ideology. But it is soaking into some peoples brains though. I sure envy the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who get to shoot the hell out of some of those head-cutting pricks.