GOD'S LOVE=THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

 

GOD'S LOVE

THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

There I said it

Wash my mouth out

With soap

We can say

“Happy Hanukkah”

We can say

“Happy Kwanzaa”

I don't understand

Why it is such a BIG DEAL

to say “MERRY CHRISTMAS”

It is a holiday

Named after a man

Who gave his life

To this world

And the people

In it

He BELIEVED in you

He believed in us

Whether we believe in him

Or not

But by believing

In him

We are left

With eternal life

“For the wages

Of sin is death

But the GIFT OF GOD

Is eternal life

In Christ Jesus our Lord”                                    Romans 6:23

I want to 

LIVE FOREVER-IN GOD

How about you

At any rate

GOD has been giving GIFTS to his people

GIFTS-in the form of people

Since the beginning of TIME

He used Noah

To SAVE the world

From the great flood

He used Abraham

To become the FATHER

Of many nations

He used Moses

TO LEAD his people

To the PROMISED LAND

And he used Jesus Christ

HIS SON

To give people

The gift of life IN LOVE

And be an example

Of how to sacrifice

For one another

The GIFT

That KEEPS ON GIVING

IS GOD'S LOVE

And what is so great about it

IS-we don't have to give anything back

And UNFORTUNATELY

Many of us don't

NOT even a thought to Christ

And what his life/death

Stood for 

And what it still STANDS for

AT this special time of year

“Therefore-if you are offering

Your gift at the altar

And there remember

That your brother

Has something against you

LEAVE your gift there

In front of the altar

First go

And be reconciled

To your brother

Then come

And offer your gift”                                      Matthew 5:23

I don't have anything

Against anyone

And I HOPE AND PRAY

No one

Has anything against me

GOD'S MESSAGE

IS UNITY AND LOVE

Regardless of our race, nationality, or religion

So HAPPY HANUKKAH!

     HAPPY KWANZAA!

And YES MERRY CHRISTMAS!

GOD'S LOVE

IS THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!

Robert P. Wallman

11-21-13 and 8-13-2023