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[Tom Johns]

With Christmas time upon us, I just wanted to share what's on my heart. Regardless of how one celebrates or thinks of Christmas, I think of it as a time to reflect on what Christmas is or should be all about... the Gift! I am talking about the Greatest gift ever given. Now, I know that I am not surprising anyone or adding any suspense to anyone's thinking here. We all know what, no, Who that gift is. It's Christ. I do often wonder though, do we really truly understand the enormity of that blessed event? The birth of Christ. It's so amazing that it was foretold hundreds, maybe even thousands of years before that eventful day took place. This gift was from God! It was His only begotten Son and He gave Him to the whole world.
I am so humbled and in awe when I think about how God cared for His creation so much that He provided the way for us, who were lost, dead in our sins, enemies, strangers, etc., to be reconciled back to Himself. He loves us so much that instead of giving us what we deserve, He is rich in mercy toward us. And by His own grace, He has given us everything that we could never earn nor deserve... His own righteousness, adoption, salvation, eternal life, and so much more... all through His beloved son, Jesus Christ!
God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ and has predestined us for adoption to Himself and has qualified us to share in the inheritance in the saints. We have a blessed, eternal hope laid up in heaven for us and it's all through Christ Jesus! If that is not the greatest gift ever, then I do not know what is.

[CatieladyB]

       HALLELUJAH! AMEN!

[rickyz]