NUGGETS: Our Gift

In all the tinsel, bright lights, ornaments and gifts, let us remember the gift God gave us. His Name is Jesus. Jesus is the reason for the season. You have seen the phrase, “Wise men still choose Him.”

Many babies have become kings, but only one King has ever become a baby. God sent His only Son into this world because He loved His creation (you and I) so much He planned a way to buy back what Adam and Eve gave away. Since a flesh-and-blood man lost the authority God gave mankind. That legal right of authority had to be bought back by a flesh-and-blood man. So King Jesus left the splendor of Heaven and was born of a virgin and became a flesh and blood baby as a sacrifice for all who will believe and receive what He did for us. “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)

Salvation is not by our works, lest we boast. Salvation is not by joining a church organization. Not by being baptized. Even though, if we are truly saved, we will do those things. It is not by those things that we are saved. Good works come because we are saved, not to get saved. There is nothing we can do to earn salvation. When Jesus comes into a person’s heart, change begins. If a person prays a prayer inviting Jesus in, and there is no change, they didn’t get Him. Anything Jesus touches brings change.

We automatically belong to “The Church” when we accept Jesus and are born again of the spirit of God. We will join a group of Christians because the Bible says “forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as some do” (Hebrews 10:25). We will be buried with Him in baptism, to follow the example Jesus set for us, as a symbol of the old man of our past being dead and buried. Allowing the new person we have become in Christ to be resurrected and live the victorious life here on earth. We will love people. The Bible said “Beloved let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love,” (1 John 4:7-8). Now this is not talking about the fleshly love that causes us to sin. We will hunger to know more about Jesus and love the things of God. We will have a desire to stop sinning. When we know we have sinned, it will hurt our hearts. We will want to tell others about Jesus. We will want the whole world to experience what we have experienced.

So in this season of tinsel, bright lights, ornaments and gifts, Christians will take time out to remember why this nation has set aside this legal holiday of Christmas. Because many species of mankind resist the things of God, they have tried to take Christ out of Christmas. However anyone with half sense in one eye cannot figure any other reason for the holiday. There is no other reason. This is the holiday the whole world recognizes.

This is the reason we celebrate this time of the Birth of our Lord and Savior, because of all He did for us. He came as a baby in the flesh, to pay a price, that our sins could be forgiven. The King became a baby for us; he is our “Gift.” Let us give Him the glory.