After December 25th our focus on the Christmas season is
over. Christmas lights are turned off,
decorations are put away, Christmas carols no longer fill the air waves, and
Christmas cards become a memory of the past. However, the opposite is true of the Biblical story of Christmas because God’s gift is continually available to us. The gift of eternal life that God offers us through His Son, Jesus Christ is just the beginning. Listen to these verses that reveal that this gift is for us today.
• “I have come that
they may have life, and have it to the full”
(John 10:10).
• “Jesus answered,
‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the
water I give him will never thirst.
Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water
welling up to eternal life” (John
4:13-14).• “But when the kindness and love of God our savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, who he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life” (Titus 3:4-7).
Have you personally received the gift that God so graciously
offers? It can be yours. “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever
rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him” (John 3:36). Why
not continue into the New Year with God’s wonderful gift of Christmas in your
heart?
