Are you ready for Christmas?  Are you ready for your gifts?  Are you ready for “the GIFT” from which all other gifts come?   Jesus the Christ is CHRISTmas.  He is the gift, and the giver.

Jesus ,the gift, is the gift that keeps on giving!  And this gift is FREE!  Acts 8:20 says it cannot be purchased with money.

In an old Evie song, she sang how He came ‘special delivery, wrapped up in love, bound by a promise, sealed by a dove’.

Jesus is our “present”, our NOW.  The right time is always now, because it is always right now, from this point that my future is made in Christ.  He is our NOW!

He comes with free shipping and handling.  He is our care package – he doesn’t come under a literal tree, but he came in a manger made out of a tree and then he showed us the greatest gift of all on a tree/cross.

He is the gift that I get to wake up to everyday.  I get to unwrap Him.  I get to let him open up/unfold within me.  He is under me – under my skin-within me.  The Bible relates to ‘men as trees’.  Christ is under this tree/me!

The Christ Child is born anew in me every day.  Born in my inner manger, and every beastly/carnal/flesh thought has to bow, every lowly shepherd thought of fear, worry, doubt, lack, disease, and every exalted earthly king thought of conceit, high & mighty attitude, and every haughty thought has to bow to the Christ within me.  (The kings can also represent the spirit realm, as they came from the east, and in the Bible the east is the symbolic realm of spirit)  Every knee (every thought) shall bow at the feet of Jesus!

Christ Jesus is the best fruit that I could ever get in my stocking – He is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance!

When I see the star at the top of the tree, I remember that Jesus is the star/the bright & shining, morning star – the Day Star, and I am going to reach for the stars, or “the Star” in my life every day.  He is the “star” on this tree – me!  He is at the top of my consciousness!

When I see the Christmas lights, I am reminded that God is the Father of light, and that Jesus is the light of the world. Every good & perfect gift comes from the Father of light. That is the reason for all the lights at Christmas.

When I see the Red & Green colors of Christmas I think of the blood that Jesus shed on the cross for me, and the green represents the everlasting life that he has given to me, and you.

In the Legend of the Candy Cane it tells us that the staff shape reminds us that Jesus is the good shepherd, and it is hard candy like rock candy.  That reminds us of what it says in I Cor. 10: 3&4, “all did eat the same spiritual meat; and did drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual ROCK that followed them, and that ROCK  was CHRIST.”   Jesus is the Rock!

Thank you Father for your gift (Jn.3:16) which includes so many other gifts, and benefits.

“Thanks be to God for His precious, indescribable, inexpressible, free Gift! – II Cor. 9:15 amp

JOY to the WORLD OUR GIFT HAS COME!  Let earth RECEIVE her KING!

God, I receive the gift of Christ Jesus your son.  I am receiving, I’m receiving, now.  I’m receiving my unlimited good from you, my unlimited God, in unlimited ways, now!!!

It is the gift that truly keeps on giving!!!   Just receive it!!! 

And the gift goes on, & on, & on, & on, & on………………………..!!!!!