The Daily Gouge

It’s Friday, December 25th, 2015…and here’s our traditional Christmas edition of The Gouge!

For all you Charlie Browns out there, this…

…is what Christmas is all about!  Jesus is the reason for the season.

So this Christmas, let’s remember it’s not about the presents or the food, and certainly not about those heinous Christmas sweaters.  It’s about family; not only yours and ours, but the entire family of man.  After all, though Christ indeed is the reason for the season, as Paul wrote in his letter to the Phillipians…

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

…and John in his gospel:

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

…we’re the reason He came in the first place!

With this, perhaps one of the most meaningful and beautiful songs ever written…

Christ is the Lord! O praise His Name forever,
His power and glory evermore proclaim.
O night divine, O night, O night divine!

…we offer best wishes for a very blessed and Merry Christmas to you and yours from us and ours!

Magoo