Christmas Gifts

Christmas Gifts

Christmas is over.  The presents are open and the wrapping paper thrown away.  At our house the “biggest” gift was our new grandson, Simeon, then just six weeks old.  Everyone wanted to hold him, to touch his oh-so-soft skin. We exclaimed over a smile, and the trusting eyes looking at everything, taking it all in.  A new baby is indeed a precious gift, so beautiful, so tiny, so totally helpless and dependant.

In reality, we all receive the gift of the newborn at Christmas, the gift of the Christ child.   He must have been just as precious, just as beautiful, just as tiny, just as helpless.  But this baby is the one of whom John wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him…” (John 1:1-3 NKJ). God, who made the moon and the stars, the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, all the animals on the earth, and yes, who made us, willingly left his throne of glory to become a tiny, helpless baby.  Let us not forget this most precious Christmas gift.

Lord Jesus, as we contemplate this gift, we humbly honor and praise you. What a dramatic transformation: from omnipotent being, reigning in heaven, to a helpless babe, lying in a manger.  May the memory of this sacrifice, this precious gift, remain with us and inspire us to more diligently seek Your face. 

Hebrews 1:10 “In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens

are the work of your hands.”