The Greatest Gift of All Time

To many, Christmas is a season of giving—a time of giving to loved ones and those in need and putting a smile on someone's face. But many times, we forget where we emulate the reason why we give.

John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." The human race was sentenced to death whether they did good or bad, but because of their nature, a nature that came about at the fall of man in Genesis 3. But God's love for the human race was so much that He gave a gift, the greatest gift of all whereby the whole world would be redeemed from death.

This gift was a total package, a chance to start afresh on a clean slate in a brand new life in its totality (ref.: 2 Corinthians 5:17). He was offered brand new health, wealth, and most of all a brand new spirit because he was offered the opportunity to have a new nature different from that which was sentenced to death. It was the perfect life because this life was the very life of God Himself (ref.: Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 4:3-6).

We give because He first gave. But in the spirit of giving, we should not forget the essence of Christmas. Our giving should point to Christ, as it should be done out of love for one another just as He loved us.

Even though we pick the 25th of December every year to celebrate the greatest gift from God to man, who is our Lord Jesus Christ, we should remember that every day we are to celebrate Christmas, for without the birth of Jesus, there wouldn't have been the redemption of man through His death, burial, and resurrection.

Jesus is our salvation, our full package, our reason for the season, our new life, and He is the greatest gift of all time.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t? Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations-you’re born again, you are now brand new!

                                          

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Understanding the Power of Our Creativity

Last time, I wrote on the power of imagination, the ability God gave every man allowing him or her to create. Every form of invention was an expression of man's creative ability. But since the fall of man, man's creative ability didn't stop, it still continued. So, wasn't having the creative ability a dangerous thing after the fall of man?

There is a lot of chaos in the world today. What do you think caused it? Man's creative abilities through imagination.

Man lost something fundamental when he fell: his relationship with God. His Spirit was different from that of God to the point Genesis 6:5 says, "The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually." AMPC.

When man fell, he was blind and lost his sense of direction. From the time of creation to the present, things created over time have caused chaos in one way or another.

However, what was lost was redeemed through our Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone born of God is expected to have this, and that is the Holy Spirit. Jesus told His disciples before He left that He wouldn't leave them as orphans but would send them a Helper—the Holy Spirit, also known as the Spirit of Truth, who will abide with them (us) forever. He will teach us all things and bring all things to our remembrance (ref.: John 14:15-18, 26).

The Spirit of Jesus (the Holy Spirit) in us is the bridge between man and the Father. Also remember that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of our Lord Jesus, is also God. He is the one who leads us in the proper way to create in line with the original system design of God Almighty.

So, how do we create without stepping on God's toes? Creativity is not controlled but an authentic expression of one's imagination brought into reality.

To answer this, let us take a closer look at the creation of man, the first and last Adam, and see the similarities. Genesis 1:26a says "26 God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness" AMPC. Then, let's take a look at John 5:19, which says, "Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner."

To be created in the image and likeness of God implies that no matter how creative one could become, he cannot create outside of God, because he was created as He is in His likeness or ability. So, there is nothing we do that can come as a shock to God. So, Jesus said that He does nothing outside of who God is, because being the very essence of God Himself, it would only make sense to act as He is, which is to do only that which He sees His heavenly Father do.

To do anything outside of that is to act outside of who He is because to be made in the image and likeness of God is to be one in Spirit. As it says, "let Us" that is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (ref.: Genesis 1:26), implying oneness in Spirit, and thus bringing man into the spiritual bond, which includes his creativity.

This connection was what Adam lost when he fell in Genesis, but Jesus showed us the importance of the connection and also emphasised it to the Apostles in Luke 24:49, "'I will send the fulfillment of the Father’s promise to you, so stay here in the city until you are clothed with the mighty power of heaven.”' TPT. Thus, those who are redeemed (born again) are one in Spirit with the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit (ref.: Ephesians 4:4-6). Therefore, we are to sit at the Lord's feet consistently, to learn who He is, to then express who we are.

So, when the Psalmist said when we delight ourselves in the Lord, He gives us the desires of our heart (ref.: Psalm 37:4), what it really means is that when we spend time with the Lord, we then live our true lives, which is He's because we are one Spirit with Him. We know us because we knew Him first. We express our creativity because we understand God's creation first.

Everything has a system, and God created a system in which our creativity falls. But if we don't allow the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us in line with the system which we find in the Word, we will create amiss and birth chaos.

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

                                          

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