The onset of secularization, the effort to remove all references to God from
culture, does funny things to our holiday. The transformation makes
celebration as empty as the hearts of moderns going through the motions.
Christmas without Christ, Easter without resurrection, and to whom do we
give thanks on Thanksgiving? Truly the Lord “hath made foolish the wisdom of
men”.
I Corinthians 1:20.
Our God so loved us that He came to us, as one of us, to give us the
greatest gift in time and eternity; Himself, by His Spirit, in our hearts.
So with Him we triumph over sin, death and the grave, and look forward to
everlasting life in a new heaven and new earth.
For the believer, new life in Christ should be a daily celebration
of His loving kindness, which sustains us in the midst of a lost world.
Christ, in us, is still the only hope of mankind.
Don’t allow the superficial spirit of the age to drain the reality
of the sense of the Presence and power of the Holy Spirit in your heart and
mind. The original holidays grew out of eternal realities, which may be
forgotten by the world, but will endure when Santa and the Easter bunny have
disappeared.