Gifted

Gifted!

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭9:6‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[6] For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Merry Christmas. We have received an amazing gift. The world has nothing free to give to anyone. In fact, the world will not give you anything without first taking something away from you. The world will make you promises it cannot keep, or promises that it will not tell you what the preconditions are. By the time you get into it, sometimes, it is too late. However, for God, long before the promise was even fulfilled in the physical, He had laid out the person and the purpose of the gift He had promised. Isaiah here was prophesying about the birth of a son about 700 years before the promise was physically manifest. That can only be from a God of absolute knowledge and power, who can do whatever He promises to do, and whose purpose and actions cannot be thwarted by anyone. The gift is not like the world will give. The world cannot give you what it does not have. It cannot give you eternal life as it does not have it. Only the One without a beginning or an ending is the one who can offer me life without end.

The gift is the Son. Others may give you something of value, but no one will give his life for someone who does not even know him. At the time the gift was manifest, I was not even born, yet God was willing to stake his life on my accepting His gift centuries later.  That gift is the key to all that God is and has. Check out all the names and identities the gift is to have: Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father and the Prince of peace. You note that these names are capitalised, which means that they refer to a Person, not an idea or a thing. This is the person of Jesus Christ Himself. He is the person of peace, who has come to make peace between God and man. His birth, death and resurrection all underscore the mew life we have been called into. Your past is not as important as the future. Whatever the weight or the stain of the past is, Jesus offers a new, clean and fresh start. What are you waiting for? No one and nothing else can give you that which the life of Jesus has already secured for you. God's time of favour is here.