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'The house of worship has been turned into a den of thieves' -Jesus
Merry X-mas!
As we cerebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, there are many things we as his followers ought to know. Basically, it has become common a practise that on such a season everybody must atleast get a new property/item. These are commonly food, clothes and alot more items depending on the income of an individual.
In reality, the day which would have been used to renew the inner person of the cerebrant is used for commercial purposes to make money instead. In Africa, this is the period when a reasonable number of women divorce their husbands just because the husbands have failed to buy a new cloth or 'good food' for the wife.
More voilence especially domestic are experienced on such a day. For the youth, the generation on which we have hope that in the future the image of God may be properly exhibited, are cerebrating Christmas season in just a different style! Sexuality, drug abuse, fights and many other evils are seen among the youths on the 25th of December, the sacred day on which our Lord is said to have been born!
The basic intentions of Jesus' coming to this world is never seen on this day. In fact even in churches, what is done there are just organised functions which, if not peceived as a source of intertainment, they are taken as a sign of presitgue among the cerebrant, such that church going is an event of showing off new clothes, hair styles, and money!
For sure, we all know that Jesus came to prove the divinity of man. His Birth, life, teaching, Miracles and even death was proving that man was made in the true image and likeness of God. That man has the power to co-create.
The wide misconception of Jesus' ministry has largely contrubuted to the commercialisation of the Christmas day! The mumerous sects that come out every other day in the Christian faith is the true sign of this commercialisation syndicate. Every sect wants to make money through the gospel!
Otherwise, Jesus did not come to divide among the people of God. In fact even the Bible condemns divisions among believers. Unfortunately, we tend to take the term believers to mean the followers of a particular sect. At the end you find that the love which Jesus empathised in his teaching has been lost in the process.
Lies, defamations, murders and many kinds of religious evils have characterised humanity with each sect taking the other as not worth living with.
I was imagining how two christian groups could decide to fight each other just because the other group have divergent views on a particular principle!
My prayer is, that as you read this, may you spread the gospel of Love, peace and unity among fellow human beings. In this way you will be creating universal peace and brotherhood, you will be showing the characterisitic of a true Christian.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
