Christmas Preparations

Christmas preparations: shopping

While visiting a local “big box” store on the day before Christmas, several thoughts were entertained.

Perhaps the reader will now be entertained as well?

THOUGHT #1

A great many speak of preparing or “getting ready” for Christmas.

This “preparation” mostly consists of three facets:

–DECORATING (both indoors and outdoors);

–BAKING (for family, for holiday visitors and for any who hunger for a Christmas snack).

Christmas cookies are popular.

In fact, cookies are so popular around Christmastime, services have sprung up which provide cookies (for a price) for those too busy to bake them.

GIFT PROCUREMENT/WRAPPING seems to take the most time of the three.

In fact, when MOST speak of preparations for Christmas, they mean SHOPPING for gifts.  This is also true of being asked, “Are you all ready for Christmas?”

This USUALLY is another way of asking, “Do you have all of your shopping done?  Have you found all of your presents and wrapped them?”

THOUGHT #2

There seem to be two schools of thought on buying gifts.

Those who sit down, write up lists (perhaps as soon as immediately after this current Christmas) and look for the “perfect present” for each person on their list belong to this first group.

This group extends to all of those who take their time buying, wrapping and finding “just the right gift tag,” wrapping paper, ribbon and bows for each present.

These are those who lurk on Amazon.com, spend hours online searching and get as much satisfaction from one of their giftees expressing MUCH APPRECIATION FOR THEIR GIFT than from anything else the holiday has to offer.

The second group of gift buyers?

Their special holiday seems to be the day before Christmas.

This is when they dash about, looking for their presents, convinced that they can do as good a job shopping as the careful shoppers do.

Besides, MOST of the last-minute gift-buyers are in a hurry and feel their life is too busy to spend a lot of time planning for buying others a gift.

“C’mon!  It’s a Christmas present!”

Of course, there are a few of that second group who SWEAR they will devote more time to Christmas NEXT YEAR.  Eventually, experience triumphs and these folks will join a twelve-step program to combat such ideas.

These were the thoughts which intruded on the day before Christmas.

Was the reader entertained?

OR was the reader intruded upon?

MORE:  Are You Ready for Christmas?

WHAT does the reader think of when asked “Are youready for Christmas?”

It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.

DOES the reader believe he is saved?

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DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?

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THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
–1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16

MORE: Eternal Salvation Through Jesus Christ: Salvation Messages from End Times Prophecy Report

[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: December 25, 2019.]

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