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Daily Bread

The gift

The Philippine Star

 We refer to Christmas as the season of giving. Most of us try hard to find gifts that friends and family will like, but not all gifts are equal. Some gifts come with a subtle hint, like an exercise machine or a book about weight loss. Other gifts are those that the giver really wants for himself. But the best gifts are those that come from someone who loves us and knows what we want.

Last Christmas, my pastor, Jim Samra, challenged us to think about Christ’s coming in another way. We know that Jesus was God’s perfect gift to us (Rom. 6:23), but Pastor Jim added another thought. He said that His coming to earth could also be looked at as a gift that Jesus gave to His Father. Jesus loved His Father and knew that what He wanted more than anything else was for us, His creation, to be reconciled to Him. Through His incarnation, Jesus made it possible for us to be a holy and blameless present to God (Col. 1:22).

Thinking of ourselves as a gift to God makes us want to be a present worth the cost, “fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (v.10).                  — Julie Ackerman Link

 

Dear Lord, from whom all

blessings flow, Most precious

gifts dost Thou bestow;

So truly faithful may I be

As Thou art gracious unto me. — Roworth

                                            

 

READ: Colossians 1:19-27

 

God’s highest Gift should

awaken our deepest gratitude.

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AS THOU

DEAR LORD

GIFTS

HIS FATHER

JIM SAMRA

JULIE ACKERMAN LINK

LAST CHRISTMAS

PASTOR JIM

THROUGH HIS

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