Daily Devotions

When we think of Christmas we think of gifts oftentimes, don’t we? James tells us in James 1:17, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. And cometh down from the Father of lights, With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
The good and perfect gift of course is the Lord Jesus Christ who came to bring us salvation. And so the conclusion is unavoidable: self-salvation simply doesn’t work. Man has no way of saving himself.
But the apostle Paul announces that God has a way. Where man fails God excels. Salvation, as James says, comes from heaven downward, not earth upward. James said, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.” It’s from God to us.
So we need to understand that salvation is God-given, God-driven, God-empowered, and God-originated. The gift of salvation is not from man to God. It is from God to man.
Have you personally received God’s gift of salvation? It is the best gift you could ever receive! You receive it by faith in what God has written in His Word. Jesus, God’s Son was born in a simple barn because there was no room for Mary in the inn. Jesus was born to die and die He did on a Roman cross to pay our sin debt. This Christmas focus on the true meaning of the season! Truly Jesus is the reason for the season!