There is nothing like receiving or giving a gift. It's the reason that the Christmas Season exists. To be with family and friends, and to give and receive gifts. Everyone loves to receive a gift, because it is an outward sign of an inward feeling.
We give gifts to the people that we love. Likewise, Jesus gave a gift that was unlike any other in the history of the world. He gave His life. WOW! To be able to say that someone loved you enough to give you His life....well if that's not love, I don't know what is.
As we learned yesterday, Salvation is a gift! You can't earn it and you didn't deserve it, but God gave it to you anyway as a gift. Here are a couple things you need to know about the gift.
1. A gift is something that the giver decides to give.
No one can tell the giver of the gift who He can and cannot give it to. Neither can they say that the gift is to much or to little. Only the giver can decide these things. Well, praise the Lord, God decided to give His only Son (John 3:16) to justify those who would have faith in Christ. No matter whether "we" think someone should be saved or not is irrelevant...only God gets to choose that!
2. A gift is given and not taken back.
When someone gives a gift, and then they take it back, we would say that person doesn't have integrity. Why? Because it is against the purpose of the giver to give something and then take it back...I mean just don't give it begin with. Well, so many Christians think that God is in the habit of taking their salvation from them. Sorry, but it ain't happenin'. God is integrity, so what has given is given! Hallelujah!
pastorj
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