“Be nice, otherwise Santa won’t bring you gifts for Christmas. “
This has been, for many parents, a resource to try to keep their children “online. “
- But in addition to the problems already known.
- The belief in a legend and the misrepresentation of the meaning of Christmas.
- What other implications can this phrase bring?.
A first involvement concerns children. Despite using this phrase as a threat? In the moment of desperation of parents to keep control when the child does not want to do his homework, or is he embarrassed by screaming and rolling on the floor of the mall?At Christmas, the child will eventually receive the gift, behaved or not.
I’m not saying you should stop giving gifts to your children because they’ve misbehaved during the year, what you have to stop doing is threatening them badly, because, I’m sure, you won’t leave any of them without a christmas present.
In addition, we must not mention Santa claus in the process of teaching and educating our children, unless it is to guide them that all this is a legend and that the good old man does not exist.
But there’s one very important thing you can do, when you give your child the Christmas present, it’s to take the opportunity to teach him grace.
Certainly, your child hasn’t been flawlessly cared for during the year, and then you can, giving him the gift, prove he earns it, not because he’s been good during the year. result of your behavior, but from your father’s or mother’s love for him, it is the right time for you to establish a parallel between your relationship with your child and God’s relationship with your own children.
But there is yet another implication in this prayer, and now for adults.
Adults do not believe in Santa (I hope not), but we tend to behave, before God, as if we believe in the phrase in question, that is, many times it motivates us to behave well thinking about the Reward This leads us to try to ‘be kind when receiving the Christmas gift’.
If that were true, we’d never win presents
And all of us, children of God, do not receive a gift, but the Christmas gift, Christ is the most beautiful gift, in fact it is not the gift that comes at Christmas, but it is Christmas that came by the present of Jesus. Christ And we do not receive this gift from our Father because we behave well, but receive it despite our terrible behavior.
The gift was given to us out of sheer grace, out of sheer love.
“For we were born a child, a son gave himself to us, and the principality upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called: admirable counsellor, strong God, father of eternity, prince of peace. “Isaiah 9: 6
May this serve for us to live a life of gratitude next year, the great gift, the main gift, has already been given to us, even though we do not deserve it.
God is not Santa Claus.