How often do you talk about Jesus in during your everyday life. This is definitely what is actually happening in our daily lives today.God's importance in people's live is GRADUALLY dwindling . Today, we hardly get to see many Christians congregating in church to observe sabbath day and it is not unusual that they don't even go to church frequently. There is no doubt that it has become a norm for Christians to go to church 3 times throughout their lives. The first time is adhering family's belief which is to be baptized in church.The second is to perform Sacrament of Holy Matrimony and finally the event after they died. And even now people go to church do not understand why they do it.This seems to be a prevalent these days.
We don't see people shed tears listening to Jesus' story and His salvation and worship Him faithfully. People choose to worship their favorite singers or actors. Imagine going to a music concert, you see lots the fans screaming their hearts out the minute they see their beloved idol coming on stage. Some even fainted due to the degree of excitement. Ask an ordinary kid to choose whether to go for his or her favorite singer's concert or attending Church on Sabbath day? You will get the former as an answer.
It is a shame that the mythical santa claus is being given more priority and status than Jesus Christ. Indeed the devil has succeeded in deviating people's faith . Trully. santa is the devils' scam. Created to replace Jesus in Christians live. Well the significance of Christmas is gradually beginning to fade. A time to rejoice and prayers has turned into an event of sinful activities. Nowadays, the so called Christmas is a day to indulge in worldly activities of sins. Ask your friends what would they like to do on christmas day. You will get answers like have fun with friends in a trendy night club, party and getting themselves drunk. One things lead to another humans are getting themselves into satan's trap. I'm reminded of a post on Facebook by a friend. She said, to people, Christmas equates to Gifts, New Years equates to Drinks and Valentines' Day equates to making babies. Sounds cute and funny but the intended meaning is significant and synonymous in humans' live nowadays
Jesus' birthday supposed to be rejoiced with activities like prayers and prayers and more prayers to thank and tell Him how bless we are to have Him who died because of our sins and through his death we are able to embrace his salvation. In short Santa has been thoroughly created to replace Jesus Christ in too many people's lives . I remember watching a funny video clip aired by a television programe about children being given unlikely christmas gifts. All these while they have been showered with their favorite gifts. Some were given smelly socks, half eaten sandwiches, toys meant for girls,activity books instead of comic books and many more.Well, seeing the kids' reactions gave me the shock of my life. They not only cried but also resorted to cursing the parents with words of profanity as well. It goes to show that kids nowadays are not being brought up Jesus' way of life and Im not so sure what would become of those children in future if nothing is being done to overcome this.
Our reluctance in accepting God's will and teaching shows that we are denying HIM. We dont give Him the highest respect in whatever we do. Just like the first two statements, we go to church just for the sake of going because we do not wish to get another boring lectures from our parents or church members. As a result we fail to accept God's teaching which He shows us from the sermons presented by the preachers, elders or deacons. And our life will fade away into oblivion. As a matter of fact, we seldom talk about God and bible in our daily life compared to talking about sex, K-Pop, Mando-Pop, movie superstars or other worldly topics. Overtime, we indulge in sins. We don't even care about God anymore and eventually it affects our spiritual life and that's the time where we deny God, His presence and His sacrifices. But in the bible, Jesus clearly tells us in the book of Matthew
Matthew 10:33 "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
So its time for us to look back and reflect. Lets follow Jesus.
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