The Reason for the Season?

  [317 words] It’s December! For many, especially children, “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” It is also the time of the year when we hear the slogan, “Jesus is the reason for the season.” How do you feel about that slogan? I take issue! Jesus is not “the reason for the season.” For devoted Christians, Jesus is “the reason for all of life” — our lives! Read Colossians 3:1-4! Paul reminds us that Christ is “our life.” We “died” and “were raised with Christ,” an allusion to our repentance and baptism (2:11-12). We “seek those things which are above” and our minds are set “on things above.” Our lives are “hidden with Christ in God.” A “season” may be long enough for those of a secular mindset, for those who give a little thought to Jesus this time of the year. But to God’s faithful a “lifetime” is…