The Gift

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

There are many words associated with Christmas time; carols, tree, family, angels, joy, and others. But I think there is one word so inseparably connected, we hardly think of one without the other. That word is “gift.” 

Too often our thoughts focus on the gift[s] under the tree. It seems to me, however, we need to establish a priority—that we first think about God’s gift to us.

What was that gift? It was His Son, the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, and of course with Him, the salvation He offered to all humanity. That gift was also announced in one of the most popular verses in the Bible, perhaps the greatest Christmas verse ever: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” [John 3:16]. 

Christmas set in motion a plan God had established before the foundation of the world; to give us the greatest gift possible—eternal life through His Son, Jesus. He came to us because we could not come to God. Our sinfulness kept us away. But now, because of His gift, we have access to God Himself. Because of the gift, we can draw near. 

We, as Christ followers, can join the apostle Paul’s great proclamation, “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” (2nd Corinthians 9:15 NKJV).