As each of you think about the gifts you will either give or receive this week, let me challenge you to think about the greatest gift ever given.
A gift . . .
- a. Whose price exceeds any other gift which could be given.
- b. Which keeps on giving as long as we live upon this earth.
- c. Which buys us back from our bondage in sin.
- d. Which restores the relationship we are to have with our Father in Heaven.
The following poem by Ruth Prentice describes God’s indescribable gift. It is
titled “God’s Gift.”
He did not use a silvery box, or paper green and red;
God laid his Christmas gift to men within a manger bed.
No silken cord was used to bind the gift sent from above.
“Twas wrapped in swaddling clothes and bound in clords of tender love.
There was no evergreen to which his precious was tied:
upon a bare tree on a hill his gift was hung . . . and died.
“Twas taken down from off the tree and laid beneath the sod,
But death itself could not destroy the precious gift of God.
With mighty hand he lifted it from out the stony grave:
Forevermore to every man a living gift he gave.
The choice is yours; you may either . . .
Accept, or Deny the gift.
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