Is Jesus the Reason for the Season?

If it's not too late for a Christmas post, please indulge me.

We hear it everywhere in churches; we see it written on t-shirts; we see little pins on collars that proclaim it: "Jesus is the Reason for the Season." While I've always thought this to be true, I believe we should look at it from a different perspective.

His birth is certainly what we celebrate, or should be, and we remember Him as the ineffable gift of God to man. Still, we must remember, He gave Himself for us.

Had it not been for "poor, ornery sinners like you and like I, " there would have been no need for the great God of the universe to have a Son. If this world had not been full of sinner's bound for a devil's Hell, He would not have need to be the ultimate sacrifice for us.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I believe that WE are the reason for the season. Because God loved the world so much, that He gave His only Begotten that we, we who needed him so very much, would have eternal life through Him. He came for us; He was born for us; He died for us; He lives for us.

"We are the reason that He gave His life.
We are the reason that He suffered and died.
To a world that was lost He gave all He could give.
To show us the reason to live."

Peace on earth! Good will toward men!