How To Adopt A Child For Christmas

bible munchis santa real? what we tell our kids.keep christ in christmaschristmas devotional growing up, my parents, never did the santathing. so after my wife and i were married and hadour first child, we needed to make the decision whether or not we would adopt the santa claustradition in our family. like most parents, we’d do just about anythingto bring joy, awe and amazement into the lives

How To Adopt A Child For Christmas, of our little ones. after all, what harm could it do? but here’s the deal, in order for our childrenbelieve in santa claus, they would have to believe that santa claus, lives in the northpole, for that least the last 1000 years.

so santa is, eternal. he delivers gifts to all the children in theworld on december 24th. so santa is, near omnipresent. he knows every child by name, and he knowswhether they have been, naughty or nice. so santa is, all-knowing. and he himself, must be fully good. lastly, santa enables his reindeer to fly. so he must be, all-powerful. those are just a few examples of what ourkids would need to believe.

as it turns out, santa claus, is not justa single little white lie, it is one lie, after another. and the more questions our kids would inevitablyask, the more lies we would need to tell them, to maintain the first. obviously, the bible is clear when it comesto lies: “you shall not lie to one another.” so, while the santa tradition is cute, theboldfaced lies we would have to tell our kids year after year make it a tradition,we just couldn’t adopt. but as it turns out, even without santa, thejoy, awe, and amazement of christmas isn’t lost, instead it’s focused on the one whois eternal, omnipresent, all-knowing, fully

good, and all-powerful, our savior who’sbirth and love we celebrate as a family. for us, jesus really is the reason for theseason. if this devotional was encouraging, pleasegive this video a thumbs up to let me know. share it with your friends. and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’tmiss the next video. i’d love to talk to you in the commentssection down below. but, that’s enough of me, it’s time foryou to up god’s word, and get munching.