Are you ready?

     2013 is winding down. It seems like yesterday we were saying, "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" With October ending in a couple days, it has been deemed that it starts to become the most busiest time of the year with Thanksgiving and Christmas. "Black Friday" kicks off late Thursday night with many steals and deals at many establishments, and Christmas trees all around the world are being lit. This also signals the most depressing time of the year as well. Many people during this time of year begin to worry that they will not be able to give gifts to their family and friends because of money situations or because of the loss of loved ones.
     I fall into the loss of loved ones category. On November 5, 2010, I lost my best friend, my grandmother. Christmas was always her favorite time of the year. She would always start planning her annual Christmas party in August, until she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Her life was lost to that disease. In honor of her, we continue the family tradition of a Christmas Day breakfast, filled with bacon and sausage casseroles and the infamous Cinnabon's.
     Christmas is also the busiest time of the year for many people. People lose sight of why we celebrate Christmas because they are caught up in the motions of business to satisfy the needs of others. Christmas is all about the birth of Jesus Christ. Christ was born in a stinky, dirty manger in Bethlehem. He could have chose to be born in a "Ritz Carlton" of that day. He chose not to because he had humility. Christ came to this earth to seek and save the lost. He died for our sins on the cross at Calvary. Death did not hold him down because He arose after the third day,
    What does Christ's birth, death, and resurrection mean to us? This means that we now have direct access to the throne of God. We no longer have to go to the temple, to a priest to pardon our sins. We are no longer bound by a thou shalt not but a that we may enter the throne of God. This is why I love Jesus because He chose to come to this earth in the form of man, leaving his "luxury" in heaven, to seek and save the lost. Jesus is coming back, are you ready?