Its that time of year again, the one we all know and love. Christmas! But as always the commercial value of this season seems to overwhelm the airwaves, with advertisements and sales. As Christians we understand the true meaning of Christmas, is to commemorate the Savior's birth.
"The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass". It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.[8] "Cristes" is from Greek Christos and "mæsse" is from Latin missa (the holy mass). In Greek, the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ, and it, or the similar Roman letter X, has been used as an abbreviation for Christ since the mid-16th century.[15] Hence, Xmas is sometimes used as an abbreviation for Christmas." -(Wikipedia, Christmas).
I hope that sheds a little more light on the subject of the season. There are many lesson's to be learned by the nativity story, and on that I'll dedicate my next few blog entires on that.
The first of which is this statement:
Luke 1
37 For with God nothing shall be aimpossible.
This was given to Mary the mother of Christ by the angel Gabriel. He explained how even Elisabeth, her cousin, had a son and that it was made possible by God. We all must remember that this was a show of God's power that he truly can do all things.
(Wikipedia has changed the type on the definition above posted. Links were added later to cross reference to the best source possible through Wikipedia.)
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