A Little Bit of Faith: A Perfect Christmas Gift—Love

For some people, we are entering one of the most difficult seasons of all, Christmas. Perhaps someone may have lost a loved one, or feel alone, or lost a job. Whatever the reason, Christmas can be one of the loneliest of holidays for thousands of people. Part of the problem is that department stores make us feel as though we have to shop our way to Christmas. But that is not what Christmas is about. Christmas is about love, it’s about the Christ child, and it’s about a promise that was made—the promise of a savior.

If we could learn how to wrap up love and sincerely give it away, then we are just about to the real meaning of the Christmas gift. In the book of First Corinthians it says, “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing” (1 Corinthians 13:1-2).

This is part of our road map to the kind of love we are to have. It goes on to say, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud…Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres. Love never fails” (1Corinthians 13:4-8).

Real love endures. The gift that our heavenly Father gave us the night the Christ child was born was love. His gift of love was wrapped up in swaddling clothes and resting in a manger on that magical night. God gave His son to us to show us how to love, to show us how to live, and to show us how to give of ourselves to one another. Christ accomplished all of that and so much more in his lifetime.

Without God’s perfect gift of love, where would we be? How can you give the gift of love this Christmas? Let us all seek to find and understand the power of love during this blessed and most treasured season of Christmas. I know I will. Amen? Amen.