It's the First of December and I'm Getting My Urge to Lose My Temper Already!

It's December and it means Christmas is just 24 days away. Nothing's really more annoying for me than the Christmas season aside from Holy Week as both are the most hypocritical times of the year. The first day of December means I'm tempted to get temperamental. Year after year, year after year... I always feel that Christmas is definitely not the most wonderful day of the year. I'm getting tired of all the worldly Christmas songs being sung saying that Christmas is the most wonderful day of the year. That same old song makes me say, "YEAH RIGHT! SURE!" I'm always getting angry whenever I hear that song. It's righteous anger because I've had enough of that stupid worldly lie!

Not the most wonderful day of the year!

What's with December that makes me temperamental? Talk about driving all the way to do something important like one's morning or evening job but you're stuck in so much traffic no thanks to inconsiderate drivers and disobedient pedestrians. Talk about going to the malls to buy something you need or want but you're hit by inconsiderate shoppers. Talk about children being misled into believing they're talking to Santa Claus when that person was just a mascot. Talk about all the people who just want to have their materialistic desires fulfilled. Talk about wicked men performing their great acts of charity during Christmas but do wickedness for the rest of the year. That's really the theme of December isn't it? That's why I'd like to call it XMas because spelling out Christ in Christmas is meaningless if all they care about is to satisfy their flesh and they don't consider why Jesus became man to start with. Worse, Christmas is really becoming a season to have a license to sin like when one says, "Please let it slide, it's Christmas!" It's also a license to parental lying whenever they lie to their children about the existence of the fictitious character of Santa Claus. Jesus didn't become man so we could be free to have the power to sin but to be free from the power of sin! 

As much as Jesus came to offer forgiveness to sinners but repentance of one's sins is absolutely needed for salvation. To repent of one's sins is to metanoneia or to change one's mind about one's sin which makes one repent from sin. Forgiveness doesn't mean condoning to people's wrongdoings. Rather, it's all about letting justice take its course. There's the right to press charges if you're offended in a criminal way. Just because a traffic enforcer doesn't hold charges doesn't mean that a violator of any traffic offense should not pay the fine for violating certain offenses. Parents who lied to their children about Santa Claus should repent of what they did. They can go ahead and say, "Oh it's just a white lie." Are they joking? If they keep up with their behavior they're going to develop mistrust with their children who they promised that they'd never lie to. Again, what do you expect from people who think that Jesus is God the Son in the flesh so He could die for sins is an offensive idea because for them man is basically good. No man is not basically good and the Scriptures condemn man of sin one way or another!

I still get some comfort when I think of Christians who celebrate Christmas in the spiritual way or the truth of the Gospel that God the Son indeed left His throne so He can save us from our sins. Isaiah 7:14 says that a child shall be born of a virgin. Matthew 1 narrates the first part of the Christmas story. I know one may trace the origins of with the Roman Catholic institution (and the date used to be on January 6 but Julius I changed the date to December 25) or that December 25 (at least in some countries) was used to celebrate the Saturnalia. Yet here's also another amazing truth. The Reformation also happens during Halloween or Hallowtide. The date of an event doesn't make anything satanic or holy but rather what happens during the event. One can even foul up the anniversary of the founding of the Church of Satan if a great and godly event also happened on that day. I guess the same happens for Christmas - the birthday of the pagan sun gods (for those whose birthday occurs on December 25 in some cultures) can be defeated by the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.