Saturday, December 24, 2005
Today is Christmas! A very Merry Christmas to all!
Maybe I can write something short about the true meaning of Christmas. Now in this modern fast-paced secular world. Christmas has lost it's original meaning and the truth of Christmas has been lost in urbanization and modernization. Businesses and sales take precedence over the actual reason why we celebrate Christmas. Forget all the media on snowmen, Santa Claus or Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer.
Christmas is the day that Christ was born. Or Anno Domini, more commonly known to us as A.D. The year is now 2005 A.D and Christ was born 2005 years ago. The reason Christmas exists is the love of god has for all of us that he sent his one and only son Jesus Christ to die for our sins.
That's why it's "Christ-mas". The day that Christ was born. Unfortunately, many shopping malls cash in on this festive period. It's true sales jump up by up to 30%, and the marketing themes are always "X'mas", in newspaper advertisements or banners plastered all over the colourful lights of Orchard Road. In X'mas, "Christ" is gone. And in place of Christ is X. When it's only X-mas, the "MAS" stands for "Many Are Shopping".
Yes we all shop for presents for our friends and loved-ones, after all the joy of Christmas is giving. But we must never forget Christ is the very reason why we celebrate Christmas. That's because we are all sinners by nature. MAS = Many Are Sinning.
Then again, if we tell each other the true meaning of Christmas and celebrate Christmas because of how Christ was born in Bethlehem. MAS will be "Many Are Saved".
Have A Merry Blessed Christmas to all.
6:09 PM
