Andy Williams famously sang of December as “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” With the smooth, mellifluous tenor that also floated our emotions down “Moon River,” Andy Williams made December special, calling friends and family to unite around the gift-giving spirit ushered in originally by God Himself. Nowadays, Williams has passed on, and God has become a problem.
While it is true that Democrats booed God when he was mentioned at their convention this year, it is also true that the booing
Democrats are not alone in wishing God weren’t really alive. More and more, Americans seem to have a problem with God.
Because Christmas is a recognition of the love of God for us, it, too, must go. As David Limbaugh wrote, “Ho, Ho, Ho, Christmas Must Go.” Christmas is growing less welcomed in America.
Andy Williams’s song says,
There’ll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There’ll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of
Christmases long, long ago
Sadly, people can no longer tell tales in America of the glories of Christmases long, long ago. The U.S. Navy is one of the latest groups to join the cancel Christmas parade. They banned the nativity scene on naval bases in Bahrain this year. Closer to home, Santa Monica, CA, once called “The City of the Christmas Story” because of its elaborate Christmas displays, now has abandoned the public display of the traditional Christmas Nativity.
As Christians, we are saddened by this loss of tradition and discouraged by the rejection of everything good about this Christian celebration; however, we must not be surprised. While it is true that the shepherds rejoiced at the arrival of Christ, it is also true that the king grimaced and plotted the child’s demise. There is more the spirit of Herod and less that of the shepherds in America these days.
Yet, just as the jealous King Herod could neither accomplish his own diabolical will nor thwart the righteous will of God, so, too, will it prove true in America that Christ and His church will ultimately reign victorious. The kingdom will advance despite those who marshal their forces against the Lord’s bride.
When Christ came to his meager throne in a borrowed manger on that first Christmas morn, he came not to ask permission or even to make salvation possible: He came to make salvation certain. His resurrection and ascension sealed the certainty of God’s accomplished will. The kingdom has, in fact, come, and God’s will WILL be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Therefore, even if nativity scenes are against this nation’s law, and even if the babe in the manger is a forbidden danger which the self-righteous, politically polite insist we must avoid—still, there will be a few aliens and strangers to the world who will delight in telling the tale of the glory of that first Christmas long, long ago. It’s okay for us to be of good cheer at this happiest time of the year.
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Gregory C. Cochran 
While it is truly sad to see these things come to pass as Christ said they would, it is also true no man on this Earth can tell out hearts and our souls what to think or feel. Christ is King and Lord over all and someday all this will thankfully not even be a memory.
Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas — no matter what happens, we must continue to love those within the world, unbelievers and the believing alike, as Christ did. We know the end of the story and what’s going to happen as it was written. We can’t let the persecution of Christianity turn us paranoid or unloving. Trust God and attempt to be as Christ-like as we can, praying always for the unbelieving among us.
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