How to Celebrate Christmas Rightly

For the time being, this means we have to celebrate Christ’s day, the real Christ’s day, in quietness and in a different way than most other people. For Christmas has now become a feast day for the world too – a Christmas-tree holiday. Most people are excited about this day without knowing exactly why, so they practice all kinds of foolishness. Consequently they squander their earthly life on temporal things. And there is nothing much we can do about it. But one thing we can do: we can feel compassion for the millions of people who, with the best of intentions, use up their strength on earthly matters without understanding the things of heaven. This compassion must drive us to strengthen our covenant with God and each other, so that God’s cause goes forward and reaches its goal. Then all humankind will come to see the light of God, the Father’s great plan of salvation (Acts 2:14–21).