The GIFT!
V24 n35
This time of year, people are looking for all kinds of presents and gifts. They also assume or surmise that they are worthy or deserving of any and all attention and gifts lavished on them at this time of year.
What if God only thought of us on one or two days out of the year? What if people could only obtain salvation or be born again at certain times of the year, on specific days or dates? What if we received from God what we really deserve?
John 17:3, And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (KJV)
One is saved by grace through faith! It is the gift of God, it is the measure of the gift of Christ, which if you should receive, makes you complete in Him.. It is not by works less any man should boast!
The
Bible tells us that it is given for us to know the mystery of the
People
search the scriptures, they memorize the scriptures,
sing songs of the scriptures, and think they have obtained eternal life by
their prose and rote. (Definition for rote: Properly, a round of words;
frequent repetition of words or sounds, without attending to the signification,
or to principles and rules; a practice that impresses words in the memory
without an effort of the understanding, and without the aid of rules.) And yet
have not had revealed to them by the Spirit of God, who Jesus Christ is.
Gal 1:15-16, 15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: (KJV)
For most, God’s gift is still a mystery, hid behind the external wrappings. The package or gift is somewhat displayed at opportune times and seasons; but never opened, never utilized, and thus, no proper relationship with the Father is ever really established, and therefore is not able to be maintained.
Will the purpose and plan of God for you today, remain a mystery to you?
J
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