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by Sandy Shaw
That was an amazing and astonishing article in the BBC online magazine, about what man calls Christmas, being a highly stressful and unsettling time.
It was said that most people are bound to feel a little frazzled and worried about being able to get through it.
Frazzled and worried?
Other publications and programmes took time to deal with this fraught matter too, as the question was raised, describing how just the very thought of Christmas, might make you feel a little anxious and depressed.
Paragraphs on coping with stress and dealing with depression followed.
The importance of ‘good mood food’, whatever that is, along with understanding anxiety, and how to counteract the pressures of everyday life in December, appeared in an effort to offer a degree of help. Certainly, help was needed!
All of that appears to be the very opposite of what Almighty God planned and intended when He sent Jesus Christ into the world.
What has this ‘tension’ to do with the coming of the Prince of Peace?
Jesus Christ came primarily to save people from their sins. In other words, His coming into the world was to bring about lifestyle situations which would be the antithesis of these emotions expressed above.
Fear not, and do not be afraid, are frequently repeated, surrounding the whole scenario regarding the birth of Jesus. God’s plan and purpose and desire was to give people peace. Check it out.
But man always wants to do his own thing and go his own way, rejecting the better path.
John the Baptist can provide essential guidance for this issue which seems to trouble many.
When John commented on the ministry of Jesus, he said to those who were concerned; He must increase, but I must decrease.
Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship
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Sandy has a weekly radio talk which can be heard via the Internet on Saturday at 11:40am, New Orleans time, at wsho.com.
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