Before Christmas last year while I was taking a walk down Grace Street, I was contemplating: “What can I give my children and grandchildren this year for Christmas?” My friend Lynn came up behind me and said, “I am giving a gift this year to my family which is the best and most perfect gift, the Word of God! I’m giving each one a Bible!”
“That’s perfect,” I said. Holy Spirit said, “That’s it! Do it! I will show you which Bible needs to go to each one. I want you to dedicate them from you and Gary and the date will read ‘Christmas Day December 25, 2015’. Then I will give you a word from me to write in each Bible — a word of encouragement, restoration, and love.” And I answered “Okay Lord, I’ll do it.”
Christmas Eve day we arrived at my daughter’s home. I was really excited to see what the Lord was going to do next. We awoke Christmas day and started opening presents when suddenly I heard a shout from across the room, “Grammy, it’s blue! You remembered my favorite color! And it has four maps and a concordance! I love it! Thank you!” Then another squeal came from my eldest, “Thank you so much! I need a new Bible, and large print!” Thank you’s poured throughout the room. Then each family member started reading the personal words God had instructed me to write for them. Holy Spirit was hovering over us, pouring His perfect gift of love over each one — the Word of God!
I have to admit I was a little apprehensive at first. Will they like the Bibles? Will they think it’s a corny gift? Will they reject it? But God! He knows what He is doing and I’m glad He chose our family. It was the perfect gift—His Word!
And now I will show you the most excellent way — Love
1 Corinthians 13 – “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2) And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4) Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5) Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6) Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7) Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8) Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10) But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12) For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 13) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. KJV
