God and His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, are the great gift givers. The true value of their gifts can be measured by what it cost them to give. “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son.” “The Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” The Lord valued the cost to the poor widow too: He said she “cast in more than they all,” for “she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had” (Luke 21:2424And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)).
Out of the treasure chest of God’s love we have received the gift of faith, the gift of righteousness, the gift of eternal life, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and, above all, thanks be unto God for His unspeakable free gift of our Lord Jesus Christ, who became poor that we might be made rich. In fact, every Christian blessing is a gift. When we realize this, we realize that our gift list is greater than we can count.
The gifts mentioned above are the equal portion of every member of the body of Christ. In addition to these gifts, our Lord Jesus, as the man who has ascended on high, has given each of us by the Spirit other gifts to be used for the building up of the body of Christ and for reaching out to the lost.
As we meditate on these gifts, may we respond with fresh thankfulness to our Givers and with renewed desire to be cheerful givers of all given to us to share.