Santa, the gift giver, is at the core of and symbolic of the true nature of the Holy Spirit. In Heaven, everything will be a gift, but it won’t come in the form of gifts the majority of the time. The truth is, we as Humans don’t want everything always handed to us. At our core, we enjoy working for and earning things.
A good example of this is actually video games. Because they prove that even “lazy gamers” prefer to work for and earn things and accomplish tasks. They show us that even though we may struggle in the normal world that we still crave earning things and not having everything handed to us. Games may not even exist if everything was handed to us in them.
Video games are kind of like a microcosm of the real world and that universal truth. I, for example, struggle in the real world and the ability to earn things. But I love video games to fulfill that itch in a way that is more comfortable in my mind. I love mmorpg’s with vibrant communities and economies. In Heaven we will all have our perfected minds and bodies in which we will really be able to flourish in the real world and enjoy life.
Working for and earning things, for whatever reason, also builds up a desire to receive gifts and have some things handed to us every once in a while. Bit of a yin and a yang there. Very complimentary of each other. When that desire builds though, it’s one of the most satisfying desires in the world to have fulfilled.
This is when the Holy Spirit really gets a chance to show his true nature. And the perfect manifestation of that is through Santa and the Christmas season. That is his true nature all year, but just being given everything all the time doesn’t make life fulfilling. This is the one time of year where we can really see the epitome of the true gift giver that the Holy Spirit is. And for me personally, it also helps me see the Holy Spirit as a father figure and God.
But Santa and the Christmas season are perfect in my opinion. It might not all be perfect on Earth right now, but it will be in Heaven. I can see its potential anyways. It all seems so silly in a way, but it’s absolutely perfect. It is beyond amazing to think of how God would think up this season and these manifestations. It’s perfection on such a deep level. His understanding of us is beyond contemplation. For example, even the silliness of it, it makes us connect with our inner child to grasp parts of it. It all just becomes this great magical and religious experience like no other.
I feel you could argue that Santa is another one of those examples in which, “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise”.
