Before you load up your shopping buggy with Christmas gifts and max out your credit cards with debt be reminded of our text for today. I read somewhere years ago, “Don’t spend money you don’t have, for things you don’t need to impress people you don’t know.” God never intended for Christmas to be a spending spree, nor a deep hole of debt.
Once in a while debt or credit is necessary. However, Satan will encourage us to become debt ridden and to become slaves to the one who has loaned us money. If we make huge debts, spending up to “the hilt,” we will find it difficult to give money to the Lord for missions, or to buy goods for the needy or to bring our tithes into the storehouse. Our creditor, who has become our master, demands his first.
Christmas is about the Savior, the Son of God, who came into the world to save sinners from their sins and from hell. Don’t become a slave to credit or creditors thinking it will make you have a better Christmas. Have a wonderful season of worshiping and adoring Him during this Christmas.
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