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Christmas is About Giving,Christmas is About Love

Christmas is about giving, Christmas is about love. Yes, Christmas is

about love, so Christmas is about giving. Its been that way since the

beginning, you see Christmas began with a gift. A gift not wrapped in shiny

paper with a big bow and placed under a tree. No, the first Christmas gift

came wrapped in strips of cloth and was placed in a feeding trough?!

Christmas is about giving, Christmas is about love. Its about gettinggifts we dont expect, gifts we dont want or think we need. When the first

gift was given He came to a people who were, in some ways, looking for a gift

wrapped in shiny paper and placed under a tree. What they got was a baby

who slept in a manger where animals eat. But sometimes if we dont get what

we want, we just might get what we need.

Christmas is about giving, Christmas is about love. It began with God

loving and God giving all He had. But the gift He gave came in a way we did

not expect. Who would take a gift from God and wrap it in strips of cloth and

place him in a feeding trough? Could it be that the best things come in theleast likely packages?

Christmas is about giving, Christmas is about love. In the past God

spoke through prophets sent by Him, but finally, in the beginning of the end,

He came in the flesh and spoke personally. You see the greatest gift God

could give, He gave, namely Himself. Not because we wanted Him, but

because we needed Him. The best gift came in the least likely package.

Christmas is about giving, Christmas is about love. For over 2000 years

nothing has changed. God loved, so God gave, simple as that. And He is stillgiving. This Christmas God offers you His gift, Jesus, given in love for you-

not because you want Him, but because you need Him. You see, the greatest

gift came not to be placed under a tree, but hung on a tree, namely a cross.

Why? God made us so He knows what we need. Jesus gave His life so that

we could be forgiven of all our sins and escape the judgment that is to come.

This is what we need-not a shiny present under a tree. He became like us so

that we might become like Him.

Christmas is about giving, Christmas is about love. This Christmas know

that God still loves and God is still giving. God has given us what we need inJesus. When He was born He was wrapped in strips of cloth-not with shiny

paper. Thirty years later He was hung on a tree-not placed under it. He

died and was wrapped again in strips of cloth and placed in a tomb. But three

days later He was raised to life again Why? So that you too could have new

life. God is love so God gives. This Christmas, and every Christmas, Jesus is

Gods gift to you, you have only to ask for it. The best gift did come in the

least likely package because Christmas is about giving, Christmas is about love.

-Jeffrey