Last night – November the 5th – we were driving home from the airport when about 10pm we stopped at Asda. Annabel came out shaking her head – they had a Christmas tree up and were playing a Christmas song….50 days to go said the banner. SHOP NOW!
This is not the usual grumpy rant about the commercial exploitation of Christmas….it is a heart felt cry for all of us (but especially Christians) not to be sucked into the lie of the devil – that life is only about what you can buy. And that your whole personal, family, church and business calendar should be focused around different commercial seasons.
The big stores go from Halloween, to November the 5th, to Thanksgiving (black Friday) to Christmas. to New Year, to Easter….doubtless the gods of Mammon will find a way to add more such commercial holy days to entice us all to give them money for their cheap (and not so cheap) commercialised glitz. Let’s not give into that. Yes prepare the Pressies for the kids….but if I walk into a shop in November and they have Christmas music playing and Christmas trees etc….then I’m turning round and walking right back out. I value both my sanity, my people and above all my Lord to play along with this sick greed and exploitation! And the following will be my only posting of a Christmas song until it is actually Christmastime! You deserve it…
