Love - Giving Love

'Tis the season for giving, and our time is filled with anticipation -- having the last gift purchased, wrapped, and tagged by Christmas Day.  My Mom was famous for not putting names on gifts.  I think she started that when

we were younger; if you don't know which present is yours, you don't know which box to shake!

 

There was no mystery or suspense about God's greatest gift to us – it arrived just in time and was tagged for you and me!  The Father didn't have to do any shopping or contemplate what the gift should be; He knew what our redemption would take -- a perfect lamb.  We will wrap our gifts this Christmas in seasonal paper or place them in festive gift bags, but The Gift of Christmas came wrapped in swaddling clothes and was laid in a simple manger in a humble cave.  Just like we have shopped with each person in mind, so God had you and I in mind when He sent His Gift of Love.  The Christ-Child represented hope for man, who had lost his way. Jesus left His home so you and I could come home to The Father.  What kind of love is this?  It's a ... giving love.