Christmas is a holiday that, despite the best efforts of the evils which run rampant in our current culture, is still celebrated worldwide by dedicated Christians and those who aren’t religious in the slightest. In other words, even though wickedness has seemingly spread like a cancer in the modern world, they still know Jesus was born 2,000 years ago and that’s the true reason we celebrate this time of year. What has led to Christmas having such staying power?
According to John-Henry Westen of LifeSiteNews, the reason Christmas is so effective at moving people, melting their hard hearts and inspiring them is because of its reflection of a universal human experience, namely the birth of a child, which ultimately brings sweeping change with it.
When a child is born, a new ray of light breaks through the darkness of our superficial, distracted, and materialistic world. A newborn child calls us back to deeper truths, and higher purposes. And an innocent little baby brings us face to face with a truth found at the very start of the Bible – that God made us in his image. Even accounting for original sin, this divine image shines brightly in an innocent little baby. And it’s the clarity of this divine image causes Satan to hate children with a particular ferocity.
Westen then went on in his piece to reveal the devil’s three-point plan for attacking our children:
- Abortion, which kills children in the womb
- Transgender ideology, which mutilates children after birth
- Corruption through depraved “education,” murdering AND mutilating the souls of children and adolescents.
He’s absolutely correct about this. Influential figures — teachers, actors, musicians, — are constantly pumping out content that attempts to normalize all kinds of depraved sexual deviancy. How many actors have come forward over the years and stated they were abused by directors, producers, and fellow actors during their childhood acting days? Corey Feldman, most well known for his roles in “The Lost Boys” and “The Goonies” has been very vocal about the abuse he suffered as a child actor.
Now we have “influencers” all over social media who are trying their best to make being transgenderism look cool and hip in order to convince more and more impressionable children that they should get their genitals mutilated or take hormones to make them the opposite sex. It’s everywhere and it’s trendy. Kids are saying they’re transgender just so they can be cool or different, having a label they can place on themselves and belong to a certain subculture. We all have done that when we were young. Maybe you were a skater kid. Or a punk. Or a jock. It was part of who you identified yourself with.
We need to protect our children from this demonic assault on their souls, their mental health, and even their physical health. Raise your children to love God. Take them to church regularly. Live out the values and principles of the Bible. More than anything, be an example to them of the joys of being in a relationship with Jesus and His people.
"*" indicates required fields