Imagine getting this for Christmas …

It’s an old story line. We’ve seen it on television, in the movies and read it in books.

You know, the story of someone opening their front door to discover a baby had been left abandoned on the front porch.

Such a situation would be an “easy fix” today. One call to Child Protective Services and the baby would be picked up and whisked away in no time.

A few years back, a couple who are very close friends talked to me about taking their kids. No, they weren’t trying to give them away. They had started traveling more often and, in consideration of the “what if our plane crashed” scenarios, they asked if I would legally take and raise their children if something happened to them. Of course I would, so off to their attorney’s office they went.

It’s likely none of us have given any, or little, thought to what we would do if we were suddenly given a person. After all, when was the last time you were offered a human being as a gift?

But it has actually happened.

To every single one of us.

The reality of Christmas is that God gave to the world … to us … a Person. He has given us His Son. It’s actually not an optional gift, He has been given!

“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him,” John 3:16-17.

It’s what you do with the gift of Jesus Christ that is impacting to your life … and your eternity.

My prayer is that you have received God’s gift, and that you have a blessed and Merry Christmas!

Scotty