Sunday - December 24, 2006

Christmas Gift Idea #1

This concludes the Christmas Gift list for this year and with that in mind try to imagine the following. Pretend for a moment that you are God. It’s OK. HE knows where this is going and HE says it’s all right for just this once, so bear with me.

Now, close your eyes and pretend that you are The Creator. You are everywhere and everywhen. You have always been and always will be. You do not have to go anywhere because you are everywhere. Time exists only as a trivial concept for mortals who measure their days of existence.

Makes you kinda dizzy, doesn’t it? All that power encompassing the glory of all creation is enough to break the minds of mere mortals who are given only a glimpse of the power and majesty of God, like Moses and the prophets. When God says “I AM THAT I AM”, HE means it. Literally.

So imagine that you are the “be all and end all” - the Alpha and the Omega. Now turn your gaze upon this little blue planet orbiting a small sun out on the edge of one of trillions of galaxies you created. Your children are playing. They insisted on having free will shortly after you created them and you have tried to guide them along their path to maturity.

At times you have had to intervene when they strayed too far from the path you have set out for them. They are an ornery bunch at best. At their worst, they are an abomination and must be disciplined with floods or pillars of fire. You ordered them to follow ten simple rules to live by to help them be good. They have broken every one on a regular basis.

So what do you do? After pondering the matter, you decide to give them something - one last chance to redeem themselves. You dispatch an angel to give to a good woman a small part of yourself in the form of a child. A child who will grow up and show these mortals a small piece of your power and glory by raising the dead, healing the blind and lame and bringing to them a short, simple message consisting of only two rules: (1) Love God, (2) Love each other.

Sounds simple doesn’t it? Of course since you are everywhere and everywhen and you already know how this will turn out. They will not believe the messenger and instead will nail HIM to a cross. For that is their nature. Your only hope is that they will recognize this flaw in their nature and realize the horror of what they have done.

So you already know they will abuse this gift horribly. To seal the deal with these ungrateful wretches, you offer them a pardon .... “Believe in the messenger and try to understand and follow the message he brought and you will be given everlasting life and salvation and forgiveness for all your sins.”

So you have given them the ultimate gift. Nothing else can surpass it. All you can do now is watch and wait ...



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 (KJV)

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/24/2006 at 04:43 PM   
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