For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8,9).

At this time of year no one questions why they are doing what they do as they like sheep follow the herd to celebrate all the festivities and traditions! God forbid someone says they do not follow traditions of men!…………But isn’t this the persecution Jesus spoke of would happen if you no longer do as you used to and have been called from the ways of the world? Our Lord was not of the world and neither are His children. Oh how I used to fit in when my house was all decorated at this time of year, as I never questioned where it all came from and why would I? After all the word Christmas has the name Christ in it and everyone is doing it more than not so it must be right …. Right??? Many times when persecution happens people are guilted back into the traditions they have since learned do not honor God at all.

God is a Holy God and He expects His children to do as He asks which is to follow His truth no matter how unpopular it may seem. Our Lord prayed to the Father to keep those who are not of the world, for He knew they would be hated. ( John 17:13-19). If He says to be friends of the world is to be His enemy, I believe Him (James 4:4). God expects us to serve Him in spirit and in truth, but if we serve Him as the world does we are therefore no more any different than the old way we claim we have left behind to honor and follow Him.(John 4:23,24).

The world may package all the traditions of men as harmless and fun, but the word of God will be the truth that will stand for all eternity and will remain as the foolishness God says it is. I believe the bible is the living word and truth of God, and cannot help but think how the Lord Himself has said people will hate you for following Him. (John 15:18,19) If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Who do you follow? Gods wisdom or the foolishness of the world? (1 Corinthians 3:19). The wisdom of man is foolishness to God, and as man follows his own way’s God is saving those who believe in His truth (1 Corinthians 1:20,21) Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 

If you think traditions are not harmful then you have bought into the lies of the season.

God’s word is clear on all His instructions for us to live by….Where again is the passage When my Son dies, celebrate and call it Christmas? There is no scripture to show Christ celebrated His birthday. What book of the bible does the word Christmas appear in?? If it is not in scripture you are following a lie.

They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. (1 John 4:5,6).