Did you have a wonderful Christmas or were you disappointed at the outcome? Were you expecting something fantastic only to receive something mediocre? With all the commercial hype and the push for the best holiday gifts, our expectations are often too big and too unrealistic.
We get so bombarded in our materialistic world that it's hard not to be pulled into believing we need some of this stuff and some of that. We take sly glances at the tree wondering if a gift with our name on it was missed. There has been at least one time when we've opened a package only to fleetingly think, "How could they think of giving me this?"
We will always be disappointed by things, either at the receipt of a gift or as the excitement of it declines. God designed us so that we will never be satisfied with the temporal because we are made for the eternal. Only one true gift will ever satisfy us: the gift of eternal life that Jesus gave us when He died on the cross and rose from the dead to free us from the bondage of sin.
Don't let the empty boxes and unfulfilled wishes get you down. Open God's special gift for you.
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