When our children were little they would ask for all sorts
of things for Christmas. We would look
at their requests, look at our bank account and determine whether it would be
something good for them. Then the
shopping began, the purchases were hidden, the gifts were eventually wrapped
and placed under the tree. Christmas
morning was always so exciting and most times one would go and wake up the
others. Anxiously, they grabbed their
gifts making their own piles and began opening their presents. Sometimes there were shrills of excitement as
they discovered exactly what they asked for.
Other times there was an emotionless thank you as they opened
something they needed such as socks.
Still other times they opened a gift that was tough to understand
because it had clues they had to follow.
All in all Christmas morning was sprinkled with a few gifts that were
exciting, a few that were necessary, a few that they had to work for to
receive, but all were for their good in the end.
We also have a Father who wishes to bless us with gifts that
will thrill us…those gifts that are the desires of our heart. He also blesses us with gifts that are
necessary such as circumstances that will grow us into deeper fellowship with
Him. Some gifts seem incomplete when
they come to us, causing us to depend on Him to show us the next clue. Above all, everything that God allows into
our lives will be an immediate blessing, a necessary blessing or a revealed
blessing. His gifts will always be
aligned with His will for our lives and will always be towards our good.
So let us rejoice in all the good things He has given us and
our families!
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