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The Perfect Gifts (June 4, 2024)

Christians should rejoice and be thankful daily that God is the divine source of each of the boundless blessings that we receive! In fact, our Father in heaven has richly blessed each of us as saints, sinners saved by grace, with the most perfect gifts we will ever receive—His Son and His Spirit! God the Father has freely given us His best because of His abounding love and His abiding grace!

“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.” (John 3:16)

Through faith in His Son Jesus Christ, God has extended to all believers the unmerited favor of His grace and the undeserved reward of everlasting life. The most glorious gift ever bestowed, Jesus gave His life to bear the burden of our sins, pay the price and relieve us of the punishment for our transgressions, and clothe us in His righteousness, redeeming us, reconciling us to His Father, and resolving forever our greatest human need—the need for a Savior!

“In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.”

Jesus’ sacrificial death, burial, and resurrection made possible our forgiveness as repentant sinners, and God’s gift of His Spirit sealed our salvation and secured for each of us an eternal inheritance as joint heirs with Christ. The moment we trusted Jesus, the Holy Spirit inhabited our hearts, embedding within us the power of God, and beginning the ongoing process of molding and shaping us into the likeness of Jesus with whom we are destined to spend eternity!

“To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27)




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