Gift

You can’t save yourself. Only Jesus can save you. Trust Him completely to take you through this life and one day carry you home.

The model citizen and the murderer, the faithful spouse and the adulterous one, the missionary who gave their lives in service or the person who turns to Christ with their last breath - grace is available for all. Thank God that grace is never fair.

As a young person (this instruction applies to young men as well) matures and becomes sexually aware, it is the parents’ responsibility to encourage proper behavior and restrict improper behavior.

When we find our calling and have a biblical understanding of “stuff,” our days are not about groaning and griping, complaining and carping, fear and fret, apprehension and anxiety. “God keeps [us] occupied with gladness of heart.” Is that cool or what?

The requirement of a manager is to be faithful to what has been entrusted to you (1 Corinthians 4:2). Are you using God’s gracious gifts according to His desires?

Without any pomp or circumstance, a royal baby was born. In the chaos of the Roman Empire, the Prince of Peace entered the human race. All heaven looked on as God wrote his story of love in living letters. Jesus became, in Paul’s words, “the image of the invisible God.”

Jesus blesses the faithful. In the words of the writer to the Hebrews, Jesus commends those who are sure of what they hope for and certain of what they don’t see. Some of these faithful were men and women who lived before Jesus. People like Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Rahab. They lived by faith even though the Gift had not been unwrapped.

The work of Jesus on the cross was applied to this condemned man. All his sin was laid on Jesus, and he passed from death to life. Such is the power of grace. Such is the fullness of forgiveness.