After Christmas What?

 

Christmas day has come and gone

Now what?

You enjoyed it to the fullest starting before dawn

Now what?

You made adequate preparations for the big day

Now what?

And spent loads of money to celebrate in your way

Now what?

You drank up a stream and you ate up a storm

Now what?

And have no money left but that is the norm

So what?

You’ll see what you can scrape up for Old Year’s night

Then what?

Then enjoy yourself with unbridled delight

Then what?

Somehow life will continue in the coming year

So what?

Though December bills are still left to be paid

So what?

At what point will you think about your soul?

Say what?

And become aware Jesus came to make you whole?

How’s that?

Well...

Jesus is the reason for the Christmas season,

His coming became necessary after Adam’s treason,

Who disobeyed God when persuaded by Eve

Earning all humanity death without reprieve.

Hence Jesus came to earth to die in our place

To hang from a cross and suffer disgrace

So that Christmas is more than having a good time,

It’s a reminder that Jesus died for your sins and mine.

 

 

 

Jesus is coming again; that will be Christmas too

As he splits the eastern skies and comes into view,

Again there will be angels but no shepherds or sheep
The wise men will be all who gave him their souls to keep.

So if Christmas is one day or just a season for you

And having a ring down time is all that you do,

Jesus says you are dead in your trespasses and sins

And must repent of those sins when you come to him.

So as you reflect on the Christmas that’s just passed

And think on the good time that just couldn't last

Take a little time to consider the state of your soul

And the fact that only Jesus can make you whole.

Reach out to Jesus today and your Christmas extend

For as a believer in him Christmas will never end,

Why not penitently invite him now into your heart

So that Christ that never ending Christmas can start?

It’ll cost you nothing seeing you have nothing to spend

But it cost God His Son whom for our sake He did send,

So having paid much to enjoy Christmas for a season

Use this opportunity now to celebrate it for the right reason.

 

 

 

Yes Christmas day has come and gone

And with the bills you are feeling quite forlorn

But in Jesus Christ you’ll have his joy from the start

All you need do is to invite him into your heart.

His Spirit will bare witness that you are saved

And you will know this for you will differently behave

And Christmas will mean more to you each and every day

For in your heart you will see Christmas in a different way.

The dilemma of “after Christmas what” will be gone

For like so many worldwide you will have been reborn,

Jesus Christ will fill you with his peace from day one

And in this life he will give you the strength to go on.

Stewart Russell © 2016