Advent blog – December 10

What motivates you to buy a gift for someone at Christmas? I know  that I try very hard with my limited budget to get presents they either want or need. Have you noticed how many gifts often end up in cupboards or sold at car boot sales or on ebay? The ultimate gift is a gift that will meet such a deep felt need that it is not sold or hidden away in a cupboard.

Back at the start of the human race when Adam and Eve had chosen to disconnect with God they lost their closeness with Him. As that relationship changed the blessings that God had given them started to be lost as well. As a result of of this decision from that day until now, humans have struggled with the hardships of life; a life always ending with death.

God promised that it would not always be like that. In the Bible book of Isaiah He says: I’m going to give you the ultimate gift. I’m going to give you a gift that will last forever: a child, a son. He goes on to say about this child, “Power and peace will be in his kingdom and will continue to grow forever…. ruling with justice and goodness from now on and forever.”

So you might say that the purpose for child being born, this son being given as a gift, was to establish a kingdom. A Kingdom of peace, and justice and righteousness, which won’t last a mere 40 or 50 years; not even a kingdom of 1000 or 2000 years. This Kingdom, ruled over by the Eternal Father – originator of life, peace and love, would last forever.

Now that sounds like a Christmas gift worth having. He’s giving. Are you receiving?

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