The most peculiar day is arriving, December 25. Where people start to come together and eat together; where people give gifts, and kids carols with hymns. The day when we celebrate a peculiar person's birth who "saved" the world by dying on the cross. The weirdest holiday is arriving and I really want to talk about how it became the weirdest and yet the most celebrated.
First of all, Christmas is actually a pagan festival (I forgot the main details but you can try to search it for validity) and this pagan festival was getting bigger and being engaged even by the Christians. So the Council did was to transform this pagan festival into a day of celebration, the question was what celebration? Jesus Christ Birth! And it became a great success and now we have Christmas! Then this "Savior" comes through a virgin birth (Yes, a baby was formed without any sexual intercourse), I guess the Savior should have an honorable birth and with a great herd of people and a great birth place. WRONG! The "Savior" was given birth in manger! Full of animals! There's no thing to place the baby into so they wrapped the baby with cloth and put Him into a feeding through. Then some of this shepherd guys came and said God send them to praise the baby. Well that wasn't even into my mind about praising something, a baby as a God! I don't think so. Then when Jesus is about 2 to 3 years old there's this wise men who gave gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh. There's another peculiar thing I'm disturbed at. Jesus knowing He lived for Him to die. Yes, you read it right He lived to die. Not He lived for him to live. Throughout the 33+ years He lived that mindset "He lived for Him to die". And I tell you that isn't an easy thing for you not to commit suicide. "Well that's all the weirdness of Jesus right?" WRONG! When He lived, He lived full of strange things. He broke the Sabbath the thing He made, He touched so many unclean things, talked to a Samaritan, scrubbed the disciples feet, and telling people that He and the Father (What the Jews knew who was Yahweh) are one. The prophets prophesied that Jesus will be a King! As what we know a king when he comes we are to serve him right? For Jesus He came for Him to serve! Normally we serve a king, but here the King (The Kings of Kings actually) serves us.
The greatest and the most peculiar of them all is Him (a King, sinless) on a cross (punishment for the greatest of sinners). Yet this wasn't a sign of defeat but an accomplishment of a mission. For Him to be defeated for us to accomplish, for Him to be cursed for us to be blessed, for Him to be full of unrighteousness for us to be full of righteousness, for Him to be punished and for us to be spared from it,for Him to be disowned and for us to be owned as children of God, and lastly for Him to be unloved for us to be loved. He did this for us, the greatest and wretched of sinners (who actually put Him on a cross).
"We're all oddballs, but God loves us anyway" -Philip Yancey
"God love was revealed among us in this way:
God sent His One and Only Son into the world
so that we might live through Him.
Love consist in this: not that we loved God, but
that He loved us and sent His Son to be the
propitation of our sins." -1st John 4:9-10
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