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  • Writer's pictureJoni

Day 10: The Perfect Gift


It is the GIFT of ALL GIFTS

because it is the only

GIFT that is for everyone,

and that means you.

But as you look at the GIFT

you question whether to open it

because you are waiting for

something else

or someone else

and right now

this

GIFT isn't appealing to you.

Yet is sits in front you

with a tag that has your name

engraved on it.

It is so beautiful, yet so nondescript,

so you question its contents.

And then you read who

THE GIFT GIVER is~

GOD

Yikes.

Why would GOD send you a GIFT when HE isn't sending you

what you have been asking for?

A GIFT IS NOT A GIFT ULESS IT IS OPENED!

You are unsure if you want to

OPEN it,

because you BELIEVE that there is nothing

that GOD could GIVE you

in this moment

that would be worth opening

because

you just don't FEEL HIM

and HE seems like HE is sleeping on the job.

The reality strikes you.

You BELIEVE GOD has failed you.

Now that is hard to write.

But I am sure you have had those times

when you questioned~

"My GOD my GOD why have you FORSAKEN me?" (Matthew 27:46)

The same words that poured out of HIS SON'S heart. .

When all goes silent.

Oh the SILENCE of SILENCE becomes the playground of the enemy to whisper

DOUBT into your heart.

Yet how could GOD fail you

when HE is GIVING you a GIFT.

Is it really possible that HE is not GIVING up on you,

because who GIVES a GIFT to someone who HE's forgotten?

Do you TRUST GOD ENOUGH that

what HE has for you

is more than ENOUGH

than what anything else or what anyone else

could GIVE you.

A GIFT ISN'T A GIFT UNLESS IT IS OPENED.

So you gently untie the ribbon,

but stop before you open the lid

as you prepare yourself for disappointment.

But then you do it.

You open the box by FAITH

and everything changes in a second

because

GOD isn't a GOD of disappointments

as this GIFT is so undeserved

yet HE is GIVING it to you~

HIS GIFT OF GRACE!

"For it is by GRACE

[GOD'S remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to CHRIST]

that you have been

SAVED [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life]

through FAITH.

And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [UNDESERVED, GRACIOUS] GIFT OF GOD;

not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for HIS SALVATION]" (Ephesians 2:8-9 AMP).

And then you wonder why you didn't open it before.

But it doesn't matter

because you OPENED it now

and it is yours

FOREVER,

as it is a GIFT that keeps

GIVING

to one and all

at all times.

Will you embrace HIS GIFT OF GRACE

today like you have never embraced it before

as you

FAST from

not GIVING GRACE to others

who don't deserve it in your eyes.

And

FAST

from not GIVING GRACE to yourself,

when you feel as if you don't deserve it.

And FAST

from not

GIVING GRACE to GOD

for when you feel HE isn't meeting your expectations.

BECAUSE HE IS

is the GIVER of this GIFT

to you and to me and to all

who haven't met HIS EXPECTATIONS.

Today is going to be the best day

because you and I say,

"HELLO GRACE"

(listen to the song below)


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