Have you noticed how many shows and movies talk about “saving Christmas?” A few years ago I googled the phrase “saved Christmas.” Here are some of the movie titles that popped up:

  • The Man Who Saved Christmas
  • When Granny Saved Christmas
  • The Boy who Saved Christmas
  • The Girl who saved Christmas
  • The Dog Who Saved Christmas
  • The Cat Who Saved Christmas
  • The Mouse Who Saved Christmas
  • The Night They Saved Christmas
  • How Murray Saved Christmas
  • The Tree That Saved Christmas
  • How the Toys Saved Christmas

That does not include all the tv shows and video games and advertisers that are telling us how to “Save Christmas.” The question that occurred to me is, “What do they think Christmas is and why do they think it needs saving.”

Very few of the movies or articles I found about “saving Christmas” had anything to do with God’s gift of a Savior to us, which is what Christmas is supposed to be all about. No one needs to save Christmas.  Christmas was about God saving us.

I attached and image to this devotion. Variation of this have been around for a while. Jesus is sitting in the midst of a bunch of comic book superheroes, all of them listening intently and Jesus says, “And that’s how I saved the World.” I have to tell you that at first I didn’t like it. The reason I didn’t like it was that Jesus was being lumped in with all those imaginary characters, as though he was just one more comic book hero. But I also liked the message that of all those pictured, He is the only one who is real and the only one who did indeed save the world. It was for that very purpose that He was born. That is why we celebrate His birth.

Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. He did that by becoming one of us, taking on flesh and bone and blood, living among us and going through everything we go through in life. He was tried and tempted in every way, but never once sinned. It was that perfect life that he would use to pay for the sins of the world. He allowed Himself to be arrested, tried, beaten, ridiculed, tortured, mocked, spit upon, and eventually crucified. All to pay for our wrongs, our mistakes, our failures, our sin. That is why He came. And then He defeated death for us by rising on the third day. His victory over the grave insures us that we will also live with Him forever in His presence. Again, that is why He came.

God Bless you this Christmas and always.