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Christmas

12/16/07 Bro.Lee

What would we consider the best gifts we could give to another at Christmas? Let me give you a few hints. The best gift would have nothing to do with money, and it would not have anything to do with the gift we gave last year.

Some great gifts you can give this Christmas are to put your pride aside and mend a quarrel, all because you really do care about that person. Or better yet, give something to somebody anonymously. Forgive someone who has treated you wrong. Visit someone in a nursing home. Give as God gave to you, without obligation, or announcement, or reservation.

As Christians, we are supposed to be Christ-like. How better to be Christ-like than to do as Christ did? He came to serve, not to be served, and we should also develop that same attitude in our lives, but not just at Christmas.

Can you imagine how wonderful our homes could be, how wonderful our lives in general could be, how wonderful our world could be, if we really did put the blessing of "peace on earth" into daily practice?

As Christmas comes closer, we should think that we really could have hearts filled with love And as Christians, living in America, we have been blessed with much, haven't we? Our cup overflows from the goodness of God. It is hard to determine just which blessing is the best.

In the springtime, we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus. But at this time of year, we celebrate His glorious birth. And we are reminded that He came as an offering of hope and forgiveness through grace.