Wait, it's Christmas...

This time I was in bed, but the thought came to me that today is Christmas and so I really ought to be blogging about the "reason for the season": Jesus Christ. Who is He? To me, He is my Captain, my Savior, my Leader, my Redeemer, my Friend, my Strength, my All. I really don't know what I would do if there were no Christ. But there is a Christ, and He is Jesus, and He truly is the Son of God. I've never seen Him nor do I really expect to see Him till He comes again, but I know Him. How? By reading His words, in the Bible and in the Book of Mormon. Anyone who really reads the teachings of Jesus and applies them will find their life being changed for the better -- and not just a mere shade or two, but a completely new kind of existence that they couldn't even imagine before. It's real. Can I explain it? Only parts, but that's okay, because I trust Him. I know He is perfectly reliable, good, and worthy of my loyalty. No matter what happens to me in this life, I will not -- I cannot -- renounce my Savior and my King. I've often wondered what it's like not to believe. I don't really know, but it seems like it would be so empty, hollow, and false, like life was a big lie. What of love? What of friendship? What of kindness? These are what make life worth living, and these are what comes from Jesus Christ. Warmth, the feeling of being home, the love in a family. Courage to face any odds, and the conviction of knowing one's cause is just and good and pure. I look at the skeptics and the atheists: their claims seem flat and utterly boring. No God? Have they ever loved someone? I can't understand how someone who has loved someone (not lusted after them, mind you, but really loved them) can say that there's nothing more to life than what we see on the surface.

Since my bedtime is past, let me close by echoing once again that He lives! Christ really is our Savior and our Deliverer, and He rose again on the third day. Someday -- someday soon -- He will come again, in clouds of glory. I stand here as a witness that He is real, and I will stand by this testimony through the end of the earth.