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Thursday, December 27, 2012

A Post-Christmas Observation

Christmas is over, the tree has dried up, the presents are stacked up, the trash can is filled up, the credit card is racked up and some of us are just plain fed up. Fed up with yet another Christmas that didn’t deliver what we thought or at least hoped. Oh, it produced a fast burn that brought excitement into life until the batteries wore out. But then Christmas and all the trimmings turned into a slow fade, which left many just as disappointed, discontented, disillusioned, and dissatisfied with their lives as they were before going deeper in debt trying to buy another year's worth of happiness and holiday cheer. But, you know what, maybe the real problem isn’t Christmas’ failure to deliver. Maybe, just maybe, the real problem is that we are far too easily pleased. You see, our willingness to settle for artificial trees, plastic toys, paper plates, and disposable Christmas lights is very much indicative of the root problem we all struggle with—that of filling our lives with the throw-away-stuff of life so that we have no room left for what the Lord of life promises, which is life itself in Christ Jesus. Quite simply, we are so obcessed with filling our lives with temporary and inferior pleasures—we have missed the ultimate eternal point of life, which is Christ Himself, the source of all true joy and happiness. May 2013 be a year in which we aren’t so easily pleased!

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