In the midst of the Christmas season filled with movies, lights, and shopping deals, it's easy to forget about what's really important during this time of year. So let's all take a moment and remember what the real reason for the season is.

Christ. Christ is the reason for the season. Christmas literally means "more Christ." How much clearer could this be?

We celebrate Christmas to remember the birth of Jesus Christ and how God sent him, his only son, to save all of us. As sinners, Christ died for our sins. Our sins look all the same to him.

Why is it so easy for us to get wrapped up in what society has deemed the most important about this time of year? Stores present commercials and advertisements about having their biggest sales right before Christmas. They don't want you to forget that last minute gift. Who cares? That's not what Christmas time is about!

Do you know what the best gift you could ever get for Christmas or your birthday or any day of the year is? Well listen up, you already have it! God gave us Jesus so that we could live in his image and go to heaven and live with him forever in his glory.

God daily and richly provides us with the things we need in our lives. Maybe it's time that we start giving some of that back to show how thankful we are. I know that a year can be a lot of things; whether they're all good or bad makes no difference. He gives us what's best for us so that we can grow stronger in our faith and relationship with him.

When you're with your family around the Christmas tree and are opening presents while laughing and drinking hot chocolate, please remember why you are able to do these things. This wouldn't even be a significant day, to begin with, if it weren't for Christ.