GOD'S INDESCRIBABLE GIFT!

II Corinthians 9:15 “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable (indescribable) gift.”

Christmas Day, a day we give and receive gifts, and a good day to talk about God’s unspeakable, amazing, beyond our comprehension, gift.  This gift was Jesus, all wrapped up in love.

God’s ultimate gift to us was His Son, Jesus.  Of Himself, Jesus said “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.” (John 4:10)

Because of God’s wonderful gift, we can have other gifts such as the ‘gift of a relationship’.  John 1:12 states that all who receive Him, those who believe in His name, He gives the right to be called the sons and daughters of God.

He also gives the ‘gift of His Grace’.  Ephesians 2:8 says, “For by Grace you have been saved…” We have received the ‘gift of Eternal Life’, as according to Romans 6:23 “but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

One reason I think of God’s gift as ‘indescribable’ and perhaps part of Paul’s thinking in II Corinthians 9:15, is that it is greater than we can grasp with our finite minds.  Jesus was God, 2nd person in the Trinity, totally God.  Yet in order to become the propitiation for man’s sin, He had to take on a human body.  In doing so He had to become a human being.  Now we have something beyond our imagination, something incredible, indescribable.  He was still God, just as though He had never been man; yet He was man as though He had never been God.

And He did this as a gift to each of us.  “For God so loved the world that He gave (this indescribable gift) His only begotten son, that whosoever believes on Him will have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

So at this Christmas Season, as we open all our wonderful, no doubt expensive gifts, remember the most unspeakable, indescribable,  gift of all, ours for the taking.  This Gift is Jesus!!