The Christmas lights are coming down, and the world is getting ready to usher in the new year. Our gifts from a few days ago have all been played with, consumed, or shelved for later use. Seasonal items are beginning to see radical discounts in the stores. Yes, Christmas is over for another year.
But does the spirit of Christmas have to end? After all, hasn't the season been a reminder for us of what is truly important, of what a wonderful, "Forever Gift" we have been given in Christ? If somehow our remembrance of the reason for Christmas has gotten shoved into a mental closet in wait for next December, let's get it out, dust it off, and then display it, and Him, in a place of prominence in our lives all the year through.
Jesus Christ is Himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? "In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Consider that word "God" and its infinity, and then meditate upon "perfect man" and all His beauty; for all that Christ, as God and man, ever had, or can have, is thine--out of pure free favor, passed over to thee to be thine entailed property forever.
--from Morning and Evening by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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