I want to chat with you for a moment.  I am asking you to pretend that you and I are sitting down and are talking about the holidays in my office.  It is sad to hear how many lives the devils destroy over the Holidays.  As a Youth Pastor over and over again I would hear of one of my teenagers go to some party and do something they never intended to do.  Or they were with some “friends” and got in trouble because they were in the wrong crowd.    In Amos 3:3  it says, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”  We all are being constantly influenced by the people we hang around.  Not one of us is excluded.  If they don’t go to your church or a church of like faith, then you should  have nothing to do with them.  On December 31,  instead of going to the party on why don’t you go to the church hous for a Watch night service.  There is nothing better then praying in the new year.  If there is no service at your church then you should spend some quality time with the family.   We should not even hang around the world.  You show me who you hang around and I will tell you what kind of person you are.  We should not be talking, acting, or thinking like the world.   I want to ask you a question.  Do the friends you hang around curse, or go to places that would embarse you if Jesus saw you there.  You know he sees you anyways.  We should act as if our God is right next to you, because he is. Yet many Christians over the holidays will take alchol and do things that they never planned and reck there lives.    Us Christians  put ourselves in to much tempation.  Many of our temptation to sin was put there by us, and we fight to many spiritual battles that God never intended for us to fight.  And it is because we put ourselves into tempatation.   You may or may not believe drinking is wrong, but it has been proven to destroy your liver if taken over the years.   And the Bible teaches in I Corinthians 6:19 that we are the temple of God.  And we should never do anything that would destroy the temple God has given us.   The world is going in a different direction then the child of God.  And that goes for the Holidays also.  The origanally Holidays were Holydays.  These we special days set apart by God to remember what God have done for them.  As an example the Passover is a Holyday for every Jew.  And the world has changed the meaning of the  Holidays.   To them it is all about having a  good time, family, and reflection.  And that in itself is not all that bad.  But for the child of God it is about thanking our Saviour Jesus Christ for all the blessings he has brought on our lives.   Keep  Christ the center of your Holidays, and do nothing that you would be ashamed of if you were found out.   I hopet you to spend much time with the family.  Many a friend have come and gone, but my family has always been there.   At this writting my Dad is not well.  He has been battling cancer for five years, and I never know if this is will be the last Christmas.  And I am glad that I have made many wonderful memories with him.  I know that when he dies, if it is next year or five years from now that I will have no regrets.  I am not saying that you should not  spend any time with your friends, but spend the majority of your time with God and Family.  This is the most precious treasure we have, and if you do all in this article you will not have any regrets after the Holidays.  Just a thought!