FAITH CAPSULE: Faith is the reason to celebrate God’s gift faithfully.

Luke 2:1-40

Jesus is the gift of God for man’s salvation. 
He is here for man’s deliverance and preservation if all man will engage Him as the gift of God for all. 
The celebration of Jesus should ALWAYS be at all seasons but not once in a year.
The celebration of Jesus should be with the understanding that He is the meaningful Gift of God for all. Romans 6:23 records, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” The verse is to provoke the understand which counts before God. 
The celebration of Jesus is a secret but a story to ones with a lack of understanding and knowledge. Know Him to celebrate Him!
In this season of celebration, celebrate Him as the Lord and Savior and not as Santa from the North Pole. Jesus is the reason for the season. Get to know Jesus today as Yahweh saves, Immanuel (God with us), the Light of the World.
Jesus is One who brings hope and gives guidance. 
The celebration of the birth of Jesus is not with the understanding of His coming by His believers. 
Do you know the reason why you are celebrating the birth of Jesus? Jesus’s birth is His coming for all. 
Jesus stated the reason for His coming, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) Where there is a lack of understanding of His coming there will be no reason to believe.
The gift of God for all is His love offering for all. Word records in 1John 4:9, “In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” Jesus is the love of God for all. 1 John 5:1 speaks to all man, “Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.” It is worthy that from this day, all man should know to unwrap God’s gift to man, the evidence of acceptance of God’s gift. 
Since the arrival of Jesus till today, there is hardly anyone with a place for Him in their inn.
Luke 2:7 testifies, “And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”
Today, respond to God’s gift by accepting Him in your inn.
What is it that you have to offer Jesus as you celebrate Him?
Pay your attention to the truth that celebrating Jesus unpleasingly is a possible unacceptable celebration. With Faith, God is pleased with all. Faith is the reason to celebrate God’s gift faithfully.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your understanding of celebrating Jesus.