God’s wonderful gift

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Like this verse, throughout the Scriptures, God’s kindness and mercy flow through the text. But what happened 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem took God’s love and mercy for humankind to an entirely new level! God offered His only Son to the world, who showed Himself to us as a weak and helpless child and chose to take on human form in order to save humanity.

Ever since then, countless men and women of faith have drawn on the events of Christmas to share Christ’s message and love with others, as well as to improve the world around them. People like Dickens’s character Fred, who said:
 “I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”

So whatever your circumstances, why not take some time to meditate on God’s wonderful gift to all of us—His Son, Jesus? Let’s spend time sharing His love and truth with others. By doing so we will be spending time with Jesus Himself, for He said: “Whenever two or three of you come together in my name, I am there with you.” [1]

For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God. – St Irenaeus

[1] Activated The Presence