What have we always heard about Santa Claus? That he knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. He knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake. Guess that would make him omniscient wouldn’t it?
He would have to be able to everywhere virtually at once in order to get all those gifts delivered. Guess that would make him omnipresent?
He somehow came up with eight flying reindeer, one of which has a glow in the dark nose. He makes no money and yet still somehow manages to provide toys to the world’s kids. Does that make him omnipotent? Did he perform some kind of miracle? Is it all just a lie?
You see my friends, we have come dangerously close in our society to making Santa supernatural just like Jesus. For far too many of us, Christmas is more about a fat guy in a red suit than it is a baby in a manger.
Let me set the record straight. That baby in the manger grew up to be the Savior of the world. He is the only person who has ever lived that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. How and why did we let a fictitious character that drives a sleigh and plays with elves rise to such a level that we all but worship him at Christmas?
Santa Claus hasn’t given me anything. Jesus on the other hand, gave me His life in exchange for my sin so that I might spend eternity with Him in Heaven. Jesus gave the same gift to everyone. Have you accepted the gift Jesus gave all of us? He truly is the gift that keeps on giving!
Sorry fat boy, I’m stickin’ with Jesus!
Jim Chitty
Writer/Columnist/Blogger
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