Living in Christ

As the holiday season is upon us, it is important that we reflect on why we celebrate.  To most people, the season is about Santa Claus, telling him what we think we deserve, spending as much money as possible to make sure we are able to out do our gift giving from the previous year, and wondering if we are going to be able to survive the new year with the new debt we just created.  To others, the season represents the moment that God stepped out of heaven and walked among us. Regardless of what our focus of celebration is during the season, many of us, including believers constantly struggle with our needs verses out wants. We need good jobs to pay for all the good toys we think we need.  We need better and bigger houses in which to put all our new stuff.  We need the new diets, the new phones, on and on and on.  So our focus, more often than not, becomes worrying about how we are ever going to make enough money to support the lifestyles we believe we need. "Sometime after th