Don't be like all the others and focus on Christ in the manger. That's low test. Focus on Christ the king, on His throne. He's there for you, and He loves you.
A lot of people focus on the New Testament, and it deserves it's due. I say add this and piss off (((certain people))) who have been murdering our people for almost 2,000 years. It directly speaks on Christ's coming to amazing accuracy along with other prophecies in the Old (or first) testament.
Isaiah 53
-1- Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
-2- For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
-3- He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
-4- Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.
-5- But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
-6- All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
-7- He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
-8- He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
-9- And they made His grave with the wicked; But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
-10- Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
-11- He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.
-12- Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
And one last gift:
You know how people like the faggots on south park and such portray Jesus as a timid or fragile guy? Let me deal you a meal here. First He took incredible punishment and then suffered and died on the cross bearing humiliation and shame. It's not like those paintings and statues you see in churches and stuff. They hung Him nekked to humiliate Him all the way.
Then He does and goes to hell and suffered three days and three nights.
--Think of it.--
Every molecule of His being, His body burning simultaneously continually with nothing letting up. Pure complete torment.
Now here's where things get interesting.
When He paid your and my debt for sin, He had to go and get the keys to death, hell and the grave from satan who had them. Look it up, it's legit.
Now ask yourself this: you've been sick or injured before. If you just got beat to hell and back, crucified and then roasted with every atom of your body with that level of intense temperature scientists say is at the center of the earth, wouldn't you be a little tired? Maybe need some hot pockets or something? He then kicks satan's pathetic faggy ass and grabs those keys. Do you think satan didn't put up a fight? And Jesus took him on, and won, after over three days of on-earth and in-hell torture. Jesus kicked his ASS and humiliated him and his forces in front of the host of heaven and the cosmos itself. Doesn't sound like a wimp to me.
Remember as He was being questioned Jesus said if this was His time for His kingdom legions of angels would be there and THEY WOULD FIGHT. Jesus is no pansy. He doesn't drink the soy and wear a captain marvel t-shirt while being a moderator / jannie to a low rent anime image board.
That is the enormous power that came to save you. With with one third of all the angels behind him, satan couldn't take Him. Before the movie Commando, it's not out of the realm of possibility as you read the book of Revelation that Christ pointed at death himself and says, "You're a funny guy, death. I'll kill you last."
It's His celebration, so today is not a time to be wimpy or lonely. You got a guy who kicked satan's ass just to save you and went through hell itself. You're never alone.
Merry Christmas from the larping tech mage.