FAITH CAPSULE: Jesus is the gift of God to us from God.
John 4:1-26
Among challenges that revolves in acclaimed believer’s life is the inability to know who they are or what has been made available for them as gift from God. One that does not know what is available will not know how to engage the gift before him/her. One who does not know to give will not know how to receive.
Bible makes us to realise, “A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.” (Psalm 49:20) The honor bestowed on man is a gift from God. For those that see it as gift and engage it, cue into it will always claim it for their good.
The gifts of honor are listed in Psalm 8:4-6 “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels,and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; you have put all things under his feet.”
Do you know to embrace what God has given to you when it becomes unwrapped (revealed) to you?
Jesus was speaking to the Samaritan woman that came to draw water.  “…Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”  For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.” (John 4:7-8) The Samaritan sure has excuse not to receive since she does not know how to give when she responded to Jesus’s request.
No reasonable excuse before God.
It is written, “…the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.”” (John 4:9)
Clearly, ignorance is what makes a destitute of a believer. Jesus answered to the ignorance of the Samarian woman, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (John 4:10)
Jesus is the gift of God to us from God.
It is not enough to know about the gift of God but to know the gift of God. Those who fully knows the gift of God often launch into God’s gift to engage the blessings of God’s gift. Any man that accepts and launch into the gift of God takes a stand on a solid ground which cannot be shaken or violated. It is impossible to have accepted God’s gift and maintain a status of a vessel to be pitied.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to know and engage the fullness of His gift at all times.