What is Christmas about?

You know what is awesome?

Getting to talk to my friend that I haven't seen in months and on top of that being able to talk to her about Jesus.

She really likes Christmas, especially the movies and songs. "or maybe i should say i like songs about christmas,i just like that kind of feelings.so warm ,so peaceful".

We kept talking and I guess I figured Christmas is all about love. Specifically God's great and immeasurable love for us.

My friend had a conversation with AL before about how we were created, humans were created to be in a loving relationship with God. He loves us and has a plan for our lives, but we chose to go our own way and have become separated from Him. Not only have we become separated, but we have no way of returning by ourselves. Nothing we can do can right the wrongs we have made or earn our way back. God is perfect, but we weren't. But God loved us so much that He gave His one and only Son.

That is where Christmas comes in. "Christmas is the day we celebrate Jesus being born into the world, born into the world out of God's love for us, born into the world so that we could be saved and the separation between us and God bridged." I think it's also the reason that we give gifts to each other.

I asked her "why do you think we give gifts?" and she answered "giving ,because god gives us so much,and we should share the greates love?" (That made me so happy. lol)

God gave us the greatest gift of all.

He gave us His only Son and even sent Him to die defeating sin and death and rose to life again giving us hope and new life. She thanked me for explaining what Christmas was and thought that all this was "great".

The only thing is that actually (as we learned in church on Sunday) God commands a response. We need to do more than just know these things. Acts 17:30.

God commands a response.

Anyways.

I hope to have more time to talk with her and my other friends from East Asia. It's really encouraging to see the seeds planted continue growing and hearing about all the other stuff that is happening here, there and everywhere to the glory of God.

Ya.

Ttyl.

=D.Fa