Costly Christmas

 

 

Author Unknown

·        It cost Mary and Joseph the comforts of home during a long period of exile in Egypt to protect the little Babe.

·        It cost mothers, in and around Bethlehem, the massacre of their babies by the cruel order of Herod (Matthew 2:16).

·        It cost the shepherds the complacency of their shepherds’ life, as they had to drop their watching of sheep to see the Christ child.

·        It cost the early apostles and the early church persecution and sometimes death.

·        It cost missionaries for Christ untold suffering to spread the Good News that the promised Messiah had come.

·        More than all this, it cost God the Father His only Son.  He sent Him to Earth to save men from hell.

·        It cost Jesus a life of sacrifice and service.  He died a very cruel death.

 

Is Christmas Too Costly?

·        It is, if all that it means is gift exchanges.

·        It is, if all that it means is tinsel.

·        It is, if all that it means is millions spent on the commercialized Christmas.

·        It is, if all that it means is a holiday.

 

It Wasn’t Too Costly

·       If it means the hope of the world.

·       If it means the forgiveness of sin

·       If it means peace among men.

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