No more magic this Christmas
A backsided Christian writes about his feelings over Christmas

Christmas to me as a Christian has always been a day when I feel good and happy. Where Church attendance and family gathering are a must. Each year, as Christmas approaches, I feel a great sense of excitement and joy as parties and meeting friends awaits me. However, as I grow out of my childhood and into my late teens, Christmas seems to lost it’s magical appeal to me. No longer am I entitled to the gifts I had as a child, no longer am I qualified to perform in the childrens’ choir. All the magic seems to have disappeared and Christmas has been reduced to another important day like all Sundays.

As I look back this Christmas, I notice that Christmas is the only day I will attend Church service in almost a year. Having been a baptised Christian for eleven years, my long walk with the Lord is now a long pause. Trapped within the confinements of my sins and confusion, Christianity now seems to be just an item I write under the column of religion in the various forms I had to fill up. Sometimes I can ever pause and think, Oh yeah, my religion is Christian. A sad fact indeed, my personal relationship with Christ now reduced to just a label for my religion.

Am I the lost sheep of the Shepherd? Do I want to be found? Sometimes I wonder -- do I want to be found? But am I having fun? These are the questions to come to my mind this Christmas. As I pause to think, I find that Christmas is indeed God’s best gift to mankind. He has given us the Jesus who marks the forgiveness of our sins and our bondage free walk with Christ. Oh, strengthen me my Lord this Christmas. May I rededicate my life and commitment to You. Amen.

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