Black Friday....True Darkness

Can you believe that people would actually shoot someone over a toy?
Now I do know why Black Friday is called as such, but I think that the darkness of this day is really showing itself. This day has helped feed the god of greed and materialism and this is what happens when you take CHRIST out the meaning of CHRISTMAS.

HE IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON PEOPLE!

There were many lost souls in those crowds but I also have to wonder how many Christians were caught up in this? I am guilty. I'll admit. I have looked forward to Black Friday every year. It became a tradition for my family. I would go out in the wee hours of the morning shopping and stay gone all day doing so and my family would stay home (with plenty of leftovers to fend for themselves during the day!) and put up the decorations for Christmas. I would enjoy getting deals for my family (because when things are tight you need a deal sometimes right?) and would love to stand there in the lines and talk to people...witness to them in the midst of the chaos.

Black Friday has become a dark day..literally.....and that alone will keep me from getting caught up in the buying frenzy. *I* could have been one of those people who were pushed along in a crowd only to trample a poor man to his death. God sees them as lost but he also looks to us...
WHY have WE *let* THEM take CHRIST out of CHRISTmas??? When things like this happens God looks to us..the believers....but unfortunately a lot of God's own have given in to the greed and can't see past the deals. I won't participate anymore. If it's not *for* God then it has to be against Him. (and the proof is in the pudding now)..put CHRIST back in where HE belongs! The center! I challenge you all to boycott Black Friday. Don't feed into the greedy frenzy that is Black Friday.

2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.