Merry Christmas to all my friends and family members!
The reason of celebrating of Christmas is that our God is searching for us where we are. In other religions, humans are searching for their gods. On Christmas day, God gave you His precious Christmas gift that is his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. Many people just accept this precious gift but never know its loveliness and preciousness because they never open it. If you open God’s precious gift, you will find his unceasing love, forgiveness, and presence with you.
How do you open it? You can open this gift by believing that He accepts you as you are, forgives you all your sins as the Father accepts his run away son (Luke 15:11-32), and never gives up to employ you as His ambassador here on earth as He did to Jonah.
The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying,
“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you”
(Jonah 3:1,2).
How about you? On this Christmas day, what gift will you give to Jesus? One day, I visited my relative home and I saw a very interesting home poster saying, “What you are is God’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God.” The best gift that God wants from you is none other than yourself: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matt. 22:37).
Many people say, “if I become a successful businessman, educator, and etc., I will do great thing for my Lord.” If you say so, the Lord will say, “No, no!” as he said to his disciples.
Another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” Jesus said to him, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:61, 62).
What the Lord wants you to give him a Christmas gift is to make of yourself now for him. In other words, He wants to you to commit your life to Him. He would like to employ your body, your heart and all your life to be representative not only in the future but also RIGHT NOW and RIGHT HERE. That is your destination and the purpose of your life. Colossians 1:16 “. . . all things have been created through him and for him.” God does not want you to represent him only in front of others but also when you are alone.
Accept God’s precious gift by believing Jesus as your Savior and Lord. As a savior, he forgives all your sins, and accepts you as you are. He is here with you wherever you are. He wants you to begin a new life as if you had never committed any sin (2 Corinthians 5:17). Will you accept this savior as your Lord? If so, be his representative wherever you are as you were created in his image (Gen 1:26, Rom 8:29).
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