FAITH CAPSULE: Do you understand the purpose of gift of God for man?

1 John 5

In this season of the year, giving gift and receiving gift does not have meaning of understanding of giving gift.
Do you understand what God’s gift for man is about?
Do you aware that knowing to do good but not doing good does not count before God. James 4:17 stated, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.”
In the parable of the good Samaritan, Priest and the Levite had the chance to do good but missed out. The title (Priest and Levite) was not enough to motivate them in doing what is good before God. Just like Priest and Levite, once a worship leader (minister) of a church had a life threatening sickness and went into comma. By the grace of God he came out of life threatening sickness, after he had spent days in coma. On his first week back to work, while on his way for lunch he spotted a homeless man coming in opposite direction to him. According to his testimony, he perceived that the homeless man was going to ask him for alms. The worship leader with the good gift of God for him to come out of comma attempted to cross to the other side of the road and avoid the homeless man.
Imagine a worship leader missed the chance to do good by not giving good.
The worship leader was not able to cross but he fell down flat.
Do you wonder who came to his rescue first? The homeless man that worship leader had been trying to avoid was the one who picked the worship leader minister up from the ground where he had fallen.
Are you engaging giving in the season of the year for your own self-interest?
Do you understand the purpose of gift of God for man?
1 John 1:10-11 testified, “He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.”
Evidently, the main reason why Jesus was given to us is for us to inherit eternal life.
Every step taken to inherit eternal life is exactly what we are doing or giving back to Jesus.
How are you giving back to God?
The minister worship leader could give homeless for God’s sake. The minister worship leader could not give good for God’s sake that brought him out of life threatening sickness.
In this season, running around stores to get gift does not count as doing good without knowing and accept God’s given of His Son.

Prayer for today: Ask for understanding of gift of God for man.