Every year my sister sends us handmade wooden gifts at Christmas. She downplays this generous and thoughtful act, but they are beautifully painted and carefully crafted items. We received this year’s gifts today. An ornamental sleigh and calendar were included.
Did you know that God handcrafted you with a special and unique design? In that design he gave you special talents and abilities. His intention was to use your gifts and personality to further his kingdom. He did all this even before the foundation of the world. As with the rest of his creation, he declared you were a person he could love. The question is will you respond to that love by giving yourself to him.
Ephesians 1:3-6 says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he blessed us in the Beloved.”
Reluctant Retiree 