Hey, since tamor started a thread about how excited she was to put up her xmas tree, I figured I'd start a thread about being excited to NOT put up an x-mas tree!
I saw that scripture in
Jeremiah 10 around 2005 and I never looked back! This is my second xmas in an indep assembly that doesn't celebrate that holiday/holy day, and it is so liberating to me to not be at the UPC assembly where it was celebrated for the first few years I was saved and have to keep quiet!
In fact, it was last night that me and my sister were looking at our mutual church friends thru her facebook (I don't have one, so I look thru her's) and we saw a young married couple with a baby on the way, and I know that the wife was raised in a house that didn't celebrate xmas, but they had put up a tree and it stirred something in me. The grandchild of her parents will be in a home with that holiday/holy day and its symbols, and if I know the wife's parents, they're not intruding, they're probably just praying and beng patient, and I join with them, hoping that what they taught their daughter about xmas will not die with her, but will go on and pass to another generation.
Brethren, we're getting to a day where it's harder and harder to hold this truth up, commercialism is rampant these days and there is so much desire to give in, but I thank GOD for being called out of the darkness, into HIS light, and I know that if I touch not the unclean thing or learn the way of the heathen, I will stand before HIM one day and HE'll welcome me in!
I am so excited this holiday/holy day season to proclaim the Truth of GOD's Word, and I hope to hear from others on AFF who will be doing the same and what your feelings and experiences are concerning this holiday/holy day.
-Bro. Alex
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