Every gift reveals God's love……….

Every gift reveals God's love……….

 

Having pressed the grapes of service, we drink life's sweetest wine - the wine of giving. We are at our best when we are giving. Have you wondered why God gives so much? He could have left the world flat and gray; we wouldn't have known the difference. But he didn't .He splashed orange in the sunrise and cast the sky in blue. Did he have to make the squirrel's tail furry? Was He obliged to make the birds sing? And the funny way that chickens scurry or the majesty of thunder when it rings? Why give a flower fragrance? Why give food its taste? Could it be He loves to see that look upon your face? If we give gifts to show our love, how much more would He? If we - speckled with foibles and greed- love to give gifts, how much more does God, pure and perfect God, enjoy giving gifts to us?" Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light" (James 1:17). Every gift reveals God's love, but no gift reveals His love more than the gifts of the cross. Much has been said about the gift of the cross itself, but what of the other gifts? What of the nails, the crown of thorns? Have you taken time to open these gifts? Let's unwrap these gifts of grace and as you touch them--- as you feel the timber of the cross and trace the braid of the crown and finger the point of the spike--pause and listen. Perchance you will hear Him whisper: "I did it just for you."