We have seen it many times, and I do believe that it bothers most of us, but we just don’t admit it. Then to top it off that persons receives an award or promotion behind it while the person that did the work sits on the sidelines and is only called on when someone needs their help to fix something they messed up. Isn’t this the way we do God on Christmas? Santa gets all the credit and is the all-knowing while we put God on the sideline because for some reason, we don’t want our Children to know the truth. Something is terribly wrong with that picture. We can take down statues that have been up for years because they represented something bad, but we keep this thing about Santa going every year that puts Gods on the Sidelines until you need Him. Jesus Be Praised!
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Sometimes we hate to see someone else take the credit for what someone else has done.
Posted: December 16, 2020 in Christmas, deceitfully, Santa ClausTags: cheating, Christmas, pride, Santa
Mommy, is There Really a Santa Claus?
Posted: December 16, 2020 in Christmas, deceitfully, Santa ClausTags: Christmas, deceit, merry christmas, Santa Claus
A Christian parent must thoughtfully consider that Scripture is full of commands against deceiving others. Persistently proclaiming the existence of a man in a sleigh with flying reindeer as fact can only lead to deceit.
Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Psalm 101:7 He who practices deceit shall not dwell within my house
Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, laying aside Falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.
1 Peter 2:1-3 Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, 3 If you have tasted the kindness of the Lord
Please understand that I am not saying there is no place for imagination, but the level of emphasis on Santa appears to cross the line. The active teaching of Santa as a real person who performs real miracles to reward children for acting a certain way, in full knowledge that he is a myth, can only be described as deceit.We all overheard parents using gifts from Santa to manipulate their children into behaving in a way that pleases the parent at the time. Such manipulation is entirely unbiblical. As Christians, we should discipline our children for sinful behavior because it is an offense against God, not because it is inconvenient or embarrassing for us. Using gifts from a fictitious figure can only serve to promote a form of moralism that is alien to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If our actions are done to earn rewards for ourselves, are we not acting selfishly? This is not an attitude we should seek to instill in our children.
Matthew 10:32-33 Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.
How can we take Jesus who we call on all year for prayer and kick Him to the curb on the very day we honor His birth and lie to our children when he charges us to teach our children about Him from a young age?
Jesus Be Praised!
