I received my first email of the year exclaiming, for God’s sake, how we cannot allow the term “Happy Holidays” to replace “Merry Christmas” as our seasonal greeting. I must confess that I understand the logic behind it, and while I am by and large supportive of the idea, I think it is a ploy of satan that has distracted us from a greater need in our society. I also believe if one could estimate the time, energy, and resources that have gone into the campaign to keep our now politically incorrect greeting from being replaced, it would boggle the mind…and if that weren’t bad enough, I really think only a small minority of people even think of Christ when we say Merry Christmas. It is a greeting that in our day has come to evoke images of Santa, not Jesus, and besides, Christ is a title, not a name. If you really want to do something to restore and promote this blessed event we celebrate on December 25th, then we need to lift up the name of Jesus! It’s his birthday isn’t it? Instead of greeting someone with Merry Christmas (or the more pc Happy Holidays), why don’t we publicly proclaim “Happy Birthday Jesus!” or “Jesus is Lord!” or how about “Praise the name of Jesus!” After all, at that name every knee will someday bow (Phil. 2:10-11), why not start today? I’ve said it before: satan has no power over us (“…the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” 1 John 4:4) but he is a sly creature and I am afraid he has duped us once again.
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