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Christmas means different things to different people. But for people of faith, Christ is the reason for the season. Christmas is the day we celebrate the virgin birth of Christ as the Savior of the world. Jesus is not a savior but the Savior. No one can come to the Father but by Him.
Though it has nothing to do with the real meaning of Christmas, one way we celebrate it is through giving and receiving gifts. Many of these gifts will be returned or exchanged immediately after Christmas. Oftentimes, that is because the gift was not a good match for the person receiving the gift. But the gift God gave to us on the first Christmas was the perfect gift because it perfectly addresses the one need we all have. That is our need to be saved from sin. Had we been able to save ourselves, there would have been no need for God to send His Son into the world.
God’s perfect gift to us was motivated by love. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16, NASB). Love is the purest form of motivation. It is not the result of guilt, not is it driven by some moral or legal obligation.
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