Wrapping up Christmas Perfection

Do you spend the Christmas season in search of the perfect Christmas gift? I have a friend who stresses so much over buying just the right gift that she can’t enjoy the season. Somehow, we’ve missed the point.

It’s sad to see how commercialization has totally engulfed the Christmas season. When people wait in lines for days just to buy the latest, greatest video game, something is wrong. When they fight over the last item on a shelf, something is wrong. When the anxiety over buying the perfect Christmas gift denies their enjoyment of the season, something is wrong. When credit cards are maxed out to buy Christmas gifts, something is not right.

We should all care a little less about what’s under the tree and more about what’s in our heart. The total irony is that we spend enormous amounts of time, energy, and money to find the perfect gift, when the most perfect gift of all cost us nothing but gave us everything. The price Jesus Christ paid to come to this earth in human form and die on the cross was for you and me. He died so we could live. He died so we could have eternity. Try buying eternity in Wal-Mart or Sams Club. Perhaps the next hot video game system should be called “Enternaltendo.” Can you imagine the line for that one?

As you’re shopping for that perfect gift, remember that person has already received the most perfect of all gifts…we all have.

Have a blessed Friday.

Jim Jernigan