Lights aplenty festoon not just the streets and shops of cities, towns and villages, but I have noticed a great increase in the number of private houses with the trees in their gardens swathed with flickering lights and illuminated heralds of ‘Christmas’!
It is all supposedly to mark the birth of Christ and yet there is little reference to Him at all amidst the pagan festivities.
Indeed, so absent is Christ from the minds of those engaging in these activities, that they are ignorant of the fact that the Bible tells us Christ was NOT born in December!
Celebrating a birthday, the date of which they have completely mistaken – such is the folly of this season!
But, ‘so what’, say those who thus indulge the desires of the flesh! Any excuse for a good time is all that most are interested in.
But Luke 2:7, displays the world’s true attitude toward the Son of God!
“And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”
There is still no room for Christ in this world given over to the pursuit of the fleshpots of this world!
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
10th December 2025