Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

When we consider the greatness of the Lord Jesus Christ, his full deity, the almighty, omniscient, omnipresent God and his infinite love and grace, words fail us. This gift, given for us, is more than we can grasp.

It is even more beyond comprehension that God should give his own Son, the second person of the Trinity. For we who are completely unworthy of his attention. We have rebelled against him and not put him first in our lives. Through faith in this amazing gift, we can be made right with God. We can have peace with God, and not just peace, but unmerited favour and justification with God, and all the benefits which Christ bought with his blood.

If we have received this gift, then we should be thankful. If we are not thankful, it is quite possible we have not experienced this great gift. For who can experience the grace of God without being thankful? If we have not experienced it, it is quite possible we have never received it. For who can receive the Holy Spirit, bought by the blood of Christ, without having him change their lives?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John.
He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe.
He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognise him.
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. Jn 1:1-14