The Remarkably High Cost of Christmas

While the time of year may be off, the reason of the season, Jesus, is very much true. 

He was born and laid in a manger. 

But what did it cost?

• It cost Mary and Joseph the comforts of home during a long period of exile in Egypt to protect Jesus.
• It cost the mothers, in and around Bethlehem, the massacre of their babies by the cruel order of Herod.
• It cost the wise men a long journey and expensive gifts and changed lives.
• It cost the early apostles and the early church persecution and sometimes death.
• It cost missionaries untold suffering and privation to spread the good news.
• It cost Christian martyrs–in all ages–their lives for Christ's sake.

More than all this, it cost God the Father His own Son–for He sent Him to the earth to save men.

• It cost Jesus a life of sacrifice and service, a death cruel and unmatched in history.

So let me ask, Is Christmas Too Costly? 

• It is, if all that it means is gift exchanges.
• It is if all it means is tinsel and millions spent in commercialization of Christmas.
• It is, if all that it means is a holiday.

It Isn't Too Costly

• If it means the hope of the world.
• If it means the forgiveness of sin.
• If it means peace among men.
• If it means joyous singing.