A Gift for You and for Me!
Good Friday morning! After the Bible lesson last night, I had an idea about what to write this morning. Yesterday, I discarded idea after idea until nothing went out to you. What part of the Christmas story, how do I work in this or that, what am I missing, why is this going so badly? All questions that didn't help to get the devotional written yesterday. This morning, a very different tactic... don't have a tactic! Writing the devotional is not some kind of assault on a guarded kingdom; no matter what some may think in their worldly minds. Our lesson for the next 7 sessions of our life group is about letting Jesus into our lives and spending all of every day with him. Our workplace may seem like somewhere Jesus would never come; perhaps he would even stand outside the door, greeting people as they came in to chase the dollar with, "I've come to heal the sick!" I pray that your workplace isn't like that, but I have seen how easily I got caught up in that pursuit and how easily a company became concerned with that one pursuit above all else. (This is not to say that every individual is the same in that company. Praise God that I don't see that in everyone there!) Although the thoughts of getting still grab me at times, I would like to write about a gift today.
We often look at the Christ child as the greatest gift God has given to us. However, the real gift wasn't the birth, but the death of Christ. The teachings of Christ only point the way to that greatest of gifts - his dying for our sins. The birth of Christ didn't pay the price God required to pay for the sins of the world, though we must admit that Jesus stepping down from Heaven into a human body was quite the gift. The Sermon on the Mount was a great gift, as was the Olivet Discourse and the many other parables that Jesus taught. The healing and miracles Jesus performed are great gifts and good for us to read, but the greatest and most precious gift is still the salvation he made possible. Praise God for the gift of salvation; the gift that we cannot purchase or earn; the gift we can only accept. Have a wonderful Christmas this year and enjoy your gift - nothing bought or made on this earth can ever match it!
Merry Christmas!
Bucky
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