The Gift of Christmas

So, we are just a few days out from Christmas.  The buzz is getting quieter and the world now braces for the impact of a new year.  It's interesting to me how we (as people) do during the Christmas holiday.  We spend so much time and so much money on the "perfect gift" for that special person.  We want to make sure that we show that special someone in our lives just how much we care for them...just how much we love them.  Some of us, me in particular struggle to get that "perfect gift" for my loved ones.  I have always been that way I suppose.  Attempting to get the perfect gift knowing that I am clueless most of the time as to what they would like, what they might need, or what they could use.  I am not the best gift giver, but I feel like I am easy to buy for. 

For those of you who are like me, you understand where I am coming from.  You know my pain as I tell you that I am not a good gift giver.  We search and search and try to find that token that describes our love, but we also do it on a budget and we do it with a limited amount of resources, excluding money.  Meaning..there are only so many things in the world I could get a person even if I had all the money in the world at my finger tips. 

Sometimes I wonder where this whole "gift giving" thing even started.  Why do we give gifts on Christmas in the first place?  Many people have said that it is a model of God's gift to us on the very first Christmas Day.  That makes sense to me and if that is the case then we really have something to build on here.  :-)

So what we are saying (if we base gift giving on God's gift to us) is that we received a gift from God in the form of Jesus Christ. If Christ was the gift, what does this gift give us?

The Bible tells us that "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23)
The Bible also tells us that, "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23)
The Bible says that" the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord"

So really when God gave us the gift of Jesus, He gave us the gift of eternal life.

AMAZING!  So in summery what we have is the "Perfect Gift".  Earlier I defined the perfect gift as something that the people I dearly love will either like, need, or want.  I as a person struggle with this, but God my infinite and perfect Father in Heaven saw my need and from there realized what I would want and not only would I like it, I found that I truly love it.

The best we as people giving Christmas gifts to each other can do is only what a retailer is willing to sell us or what we can make with our own hands.  But God's gift, satisfies all my wants, all my needs, and all my hearts desires. 

God's Gifts are;  salvation, restoration, forgiveness, love, peace, eternal life, grace, and many, many more.

So now that we look ahead to a new year, let us be reminded that "re-gifting" is not a bad thing in this case.  God gave me a gift and now it is not just my obligation, but it is my pleasure to share it with whoever would like what God has given me.  I pray you will do the same.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a joyous and happy New Year,
Greg