Done for Day 10 Gift to the World Challenge found here: https://oscraps.com/community/threads/day-10-gift-to-the-world-challenge.38836/

Journaling reads: My gift to the world is a gift that was given to me. It is a gift that is meant to be shared. And it is a gift that keeps on giving; once you have this gift…once you truly take possession of the gift, you can’t help but share it! It changes you from the inside out. It is a gift that is offered to everyone, but not all will receive it. This gift is free to me and all who will receive it, but it was very costly to the Originator of the gift. This gift has been shared by many, received by many, and rejected by many for more than 2,000 years.

This gift came from heaven in the body of a baby. This gift was wrapped in swaddling cloths and laid in a manger of hay, not in a king’s palace. This gift was God’s gift to the world and His name is Jesus. God’s whole reason for giving this gift was because He loved sinful mankind. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

But this baby had a task to perform. He was no ordinary baby. He was born to die. In those 33 years between His birth and His death He lived a sinless life (a life you and I cannot live) so that His death would be a sacrificial death, the gift to pay for my sins…yea, and for the sins of all who receive His gift. “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:17

Jesus didn’t have to condemn the world. Adam and Eve took care of that when they disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. And from that day forward mankind has followed suit. But there is good news! “He that believes on Him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:18

My gift to the world is not new. The message of salvation has been around for more than 2,000 years. The question I would ask is, will YOU receive the Gift? Or, will you reject Him? This would be the perfect time of year to receive His gift, the gift of salvation and eternal life, and then you, too, can share THE Gift of all gifts to the world!