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Christmas has been celebrated for more than two millennia with the usual pomp and pageantry associated with it. It is arguably the most popular religious holiday celebrated even among non-Christians.
During the Christmas season, business activities increase around the world and that has caused many more people to view Christmas as an economic activity than as a spiritual exercise.
It is during Christmas that most people put on the best clothes, shoes and other paraphernalia and attend church in great numbers. In fact, most people who do not attend church regularly will attend church service as a normal activity on December 25, which is believed to be the birthday of Jesus Christ.
Is that what Christmas is really about? No! There is more than the pomp and pomp that is often associated with your celebrations.
Mysticism is understood as a form of contact with the divine or transcendent, often understood in the Christian tradition as a union with God. Mysticism played an important role in the history of the Christian religion and emerged as a living influence in modern times (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2020).
It is this union with God as believed in the Christian religion, it is where the other merits of the Christmas celebration come to the fore and require some attention.
There are some spiritual benefits attached to celebrating Christmas and it is this that Christians who are mystically inclined take advantage of.
To appreciate this, let’s read this beautiful piece originally written by Angelus Silesius entitled “The Inner Nativity Scene”:
“Could my soul, oh God,
Become a silent night
You would be born in me
And fix all the things!
Ah my heart would be
A manger for your birth,
Would you turn one more time
A child on earth!
Although Christ a thousand times
In Bethlehem born,
If it was not born in me
My soul is helpless:
The cross on Golgotha
It will never save my soul;
The cross in my own heart
It can only heal me. “
It is the second stanza that I would like to call the attention of most Christians. As we celebrate Christmas every year, we experience the repeated births of Jesus Christ at this time. It has been that way for several years, but was Christ born in you? If not, then you need to re-evaluate how you celebrate Christmas.
For us a child is born is not a physical but a spiritual birth that must involve a renewal of spirit for the spiritual growth of man in order to serve in the Lord’s vineyard.
Those who arranged the birth of Christ around December 25 knew what it was all about and that will be discussed in another article, but this is to give you some introductory lessons on the availability of spiritual urges at this time for you to take advantage of.
For a thousand times, if the birth of Christ takes place around midnight on December 24 and not within yourself, your soul will be abandoned, miserable, abandoned, abandoned, lonely, etc.
This is the real reason most people celebrate Christmas and aside from the food they eat, the religious services, and the beaches they attend, they don’t actually necessarily see any benefit from the celebration minus the enjoyment. Most do not ask why Christ is born every year and celebrated.
Because most of us are familiar with the physical and religious ritual of going to church and having fun, most of us have not become familiar with the birth of Christ in us.
Some may ask: how is that possible? That birth is in relation to the force of Christ that is felt a lot around the 24th and 25th of each December.
If you have truly prepared to meet Christ as a Christian, you will experience that birth within yourself. You will fall the impulses of the force of Christ. You will be spiritually enlightened with the strength of Christ and you will begin to see and understand things that most people cannot.
You will receive spiritual insight and begin to see beyond the physical. You can predict what is about to happen and you will become a suitable tool in the service of humanity.
If the year ends and you have not yet been renewed with the strength of Christ, then you have another opportunity next year to prepare to meet Him being born again in you.
Renew yourself spiritually with this birth and your souls will rejoice.
AFEHYIAPA. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.
