As bad as that sounds...it is sometimes true. Okay, it was definitely true of me when I was younger. But now that I actually have money to buy other people presents, I realize that there is something more fun than opening up presents on Christmas morning...looking at the face of someone open a present that you bought them. There is like this great adrenaline rush as the tear off the Christmas tree wrapping paper and open the box to find....yeah. That's a great moment. And very fun. (Especially if they really like what you got them. Even if they don't its still fun because you get to watch them fake excitement and appreciation...that's fun too.)
But it is real easy to make Christmas all about us and what we want. But really...the Christmas season is all about others. This is exemplified to us from none other than Jesus Himself. The Bible tells us,
"Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of Himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of Himself that He had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, He set aside the privileges of deity and took the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, He stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, He lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death--and the worst kind of death at that--a crucifixion."
Jesus modeled "living Christmas" for us. it is all about putting others first. Its like we've been asked...so I challenge you still...
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO MAKE SOMEBODY ELSE'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL?
Your right, it's hard not to be selfish on Christmas, but like you said when you get presents for other people you cant help but be excited too see if they like it, too see them open what you spent your time getting them, it's so much fun :)I think we should do something this Christmas to help people out, like maybe what Haley said she did one time, Christmas day after everybody spent the morning with family and opening there presents, the youth group got together and went to the soup kitchen too feed people a Christmas dinner, I think that would be cool, and i think it would be a really good thing too do.
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