Even though the Father, Son and Holy Spirit have perfect and eternal unity, yet they remain distinct persons. In the same way, even though someday we shall attain perfect unity with other believers and with Christ, yet we shall forever remain distinct persons as well, with our own individual gifts, abilities, interests, responsibilities, circles of personal relationships, preferences and desires.
Gifts
Katherine Walden
Living in the assurance of his blessings over us is never to be mistaken as taking those blessings for granted. His gifts are never a sign that we earned them. After all, a gift is a gift and not a reward. Celebrate his extravagance today by telling someone about the great things he has done in your life.
Theophilus Gale
Whatsoever I thankfully receive, as a token of God’s love to me, I part with contentedly as a token of my love to Him.
Elisabeth Elliot
January 16, 2020
What God gives us is not necessarily “ours” but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.
Elisabeth Elliot
Mary Slessor
No gift or genius or position can keep us safe or free from sin.
Frederick Brotherton ( F. B. ) Meyer
I used to think that God’s gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God’s gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.
Rick Warren
The Bible tells us that the Wise Men didn’t give Jesus their leftovers when they visited him on the first Christmas but instead gave three very significant and valuable gifts: “They bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their gifts and gave him treasures of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.” (Matthew 2:11).
As you give Jesus your trust, make him first in your life, give what you value to his work, and bring other people to him, you’re giving him gifts far more valuable than the ones the Wise Men brought.
Chip Brogden
Having never met you, I can tell you right away that your [ spiritual ] Gift is Christ. Of course, how that Gift expresses Himself through you will be something for you to discover. I only encourage you not to put Him into a ministerial box, saying, “I am thus and so, and so I can never be this or that.” Friend, you are nothing, and He is all, and one never knows how He will use a yielded vessel.
Mother Teresa
Prayer makes the heart large enough until it can contain God’s gift of Himself.
Sigrid Undset
When we give each other our Christmas presents in his name, let us remember that he has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans and all that lives and moves upon them. . . . And to save us from our own foolishness and from all our sins, he came down to earth and gave himself.