The song says, Santa Clause is Coming to Town, and the encouraging words instruct us that Santa is checking his list to see who is naughty and nice. Some thoughts that need exploration are items like, when does the list or recording keeping begin? Could it be that Santa starts his list on Christmas Day, especially since he comes on Christmas Eve? Or maybe he doesn’t start until the first day of Summer. This would give him time to regroup things at the North Pole pulling together all the players necessary to make such a one day sleigh ride possible.
Considering that most children don’t begin writing letters to Santa until the day after Thanksgiving, there is a lot of work to accomplish in a short time for the man in red and his helpers. Not sure when Santa starts keeping his list or how he organizes but the song states without a doubt that he is putting all of us into one of two list…bad or good.
One item that needs some investigating from the song is how you can move from the naughty and not receiving gifts to the nice and Santa is packing up something just for you.
When one is young you might thing for days about what you are going to put out on the table for Santa to eat during his visit to your house, and I believe most are not even concerned about the presence or absence of a chimney. I’m not sure if most children are thinking by leaving some goodies for Santa to eat that it’s the last ditch effort to win Santa over so he will leave more gifts or not, but that’s a question and thought worth wondering about for conversation sake.
Seems like everybody at this time of the year is trying to be nice so we can receive maybe our own wish list on Christmas Eve. If one doesn’t take a good inventory of themselves at this time of the year it is easy to see by just asking questions how we can begin traveling down a road that is not at all about the real meaning of Christmas.
The real news of Christmas is that whether naughty or nice, there is an answer that provides hope and the free gift of a lifetime. Gifts at this time of the year fall into the “I just want” and that means it could be something you want to play with or just have, or the other category “I should could use”, and it could be items you use all the time that are not only practical but useful and needed, not to mention your brand choice too.
Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem and he would die at the place of the Skull called Calvary. His gift to the world is one that for some it is easily seen and the need is felt inside our hearts, just knowing that something is missing in our lives. Accepting His free gift is an amazing experience. While you receive everything Jesus offers when you ask Him to come into your heart immediately, it does take time to get to know Him, learn His character and see His patterns and how He works in our lives.
Not sure about Santa and his list and nor when he begins, but one thing I know for sure. When ever you ask Jesus to come into your life, He begins to work immediately, He is just waiting on you to accept His gift for you…so why not this Christmas?
Until then
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