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Thought For Today - December 13 - Christmas Time!.

Thought For Today – December 13

Christmas Time!

It is only a few more days before Christmas. This is the time for the giving and receiving of gifts. Who is the most important person on your Christmas list?
We celebrate the advent of the Lord Jesus Christ at Christmas time – but do we really? Where are our thoughts, and where is our mind and heart focused, really? At Christmas time? We ought to be celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ but I wonder if he is at the top of our Christmas giving and receiving list, or at the middle, or at the end, or is he really there at all?
As we gather around our family and friends to celebrate this most festive of occasions, the first gift that ought to be received with gratitude and thanksgiving is God's love gift to us, the Lord Jesus Christ. Open this gift first . Give him gratitude and praise him first for his gift of love.
At Christmas time “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16. At Christmas time God offered us the opportunity to become his adopted children by grace through faith. “As many as received him to them gave he the power ( or authority ) to become the sons of God.” At Christmas time he made it possible for us as children of God to become heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. At Christmastime, God gave gifts unto men “wherefore he saith when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men Ephesians 4; 8 At Christmas time God provided for our salvation.
Salvation is a big package,containing many things. It first of all contains forgiveness of sins, freedom from guilt, justification with God. It includes peace and joy and all the fruits of the Spirit. It contains everlasting eternal life. It guarantees an all expense paid trip to heaven and the right to walk on streets of gold. It guarantees that there is a ma nsion prepared and waiting for us in heaven. Jesus said -”I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also.” John 14. The package of our salvation contains abundant life here on earth, protection from danger, healing of mind soul and body and a guaranteed audience with the King of kings and Lord of Lords. It contains all the provisions available to us in the 23rd Psalm. It all happened at Christmas, and what a Christmas gift it is! Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift, the Lord Jesus Christ. As we gather to receive and exchange gifts from family and friends lets open first God's Gift to us that Christ died for us,the Godly for the ungodly, the Righteous for the unrighteous
Lets covenant with ourselves and with each other that we will not receive any gift from anyone else this Christmas time until we have received with gratitude in our hearts, the treasure that was given to us at Christmas time. No matter how abject the poverty, or how small the bank account, or how few the gifts under the tree, no one has a right to say that they received nothing for Christmas. God gave us everything he had at Christmas time. Lets covennt with ourselves that we will not offer to anyone else our meager trinkets or gifts until we have rededicated our lives to the Lord Jesus Christ and offered our selves to him in loving gratitude and service.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren by the mercies ofGod, that ye present your bodies, a living sacrifice, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” Romans 12: 1. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you Matthew 6: 33.
Every gift that we present to someone else should not be given with the attitude of seeing how much the recipient of our gift will be pleased with us for having given them a gift. Instead, every gift that we present to someone else ought to be a symbol of the gift that was offered to us by Christ coming into the world and shedding his blood for us. If opportunity presents itself, we ought to first offer to everyone on our gift list, God's plan of salvation. Our first gift ought to be presented to the Lord JesusChrist in gratitude for his gift to us. We ought to present to him our bodies as a living sacrifice which is our reasonable service. We ought to present to him our complete love and loyality to love the lord with all our heart, with all our mind,with all our soul. We ought to keep our mind clean and our thoughts pure, and our bodies, the temple of God clean so that it may be God's dwelling place and his headquarters here on earth.
If the Lord Jesus Christ is not on the top of our gift receiving and giving list, then we are not celebrating the coming of the Lord into the world, instead we will be celebrating some pagan festival of lustful seeking vain glory and the esteem of men.
How sad it is that in this so called Christian countryof ours,we are told that in order to be politically correct we must exclude the name and idea of Christ from Christmas and celebrate a pagan holiday instead. This is utter blasphemy. May God have mercy on our souls and on our nation for this gross sin.

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