Are you finished with your Christmas shopping or not even
started? If you have not started your Christmas shopping,
it certainly is not because the retailers have not made you aware through
television, internet, and print of what
they have to offer. We give and buy
our gifts for one reason- God’s great gift to the world found in Christ Jesus,
God incarnate. You might see some sales
and bargains in this Christmas shopping season, but no gift compares with God’s
gift in Christ Jesus. And on top of
that, God’s gift is free. The apostle
Paul puts it this way in Ephesians 2:8,
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this not
from yourselves, it is the gift of God”.
Thanks be to God for the gift of Christ and the gift of God’s grace that
is ours in this season and every season.
PRAYER
O God,
who came among us long ago and who comes among us in these Advent days, prepare our hearts to receive anew the
gift of your son, Jesus Christ.
Cleanse our hearts through the power of your Holy Spirit that Christ
might live anew in us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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