GIVE THAT SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GIFT THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON

 

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You  probably will receive some quite good gifts on Christmas day…may haps even some great gifts, but nothing can compare to that first one.

Consider what was included in that Christmas gift.  Not just the promise of life eternal but also He offered us the gift of mercy - a caring heart,   an unselfish soul.

It was a gift that keeps on giving. But have you gladly received and kept

alive this gift of mercy?

I can quickly think of five ways we can all keep alive God’s wonderful gift of our Savior Christ...the Christmas gift of compassionate caring.

How?  Ask yourself the following questions and then work and pray toward being able to give the answer “yes” to these questions.

1.   When people are hurting, do they seek you out?  Do you make them feel better just because you are not condemnatory or rude in thought and deed?

2.   Do you seem to say the right thing at the right time or are you capable far too often of saying wrong and hurtful things?

3.   Do you help people without looking at your watch or wondering what’s in it for you?

4.   Are you sensitive enough to feel it when people are down and depressed, and then try to help them with a word or deed?

5.   And a very simple thing - are you a good listener?

You can find a number of mercy people in the Bible who kept God’s gift alive. 

Allow me to tell you of one of them, a man by

the name of Onesiphorus.

The Apostle Paul was in jail in Rome.  This was his final incarceration.  In not that long a time the Emperor Nero would have him beheaded.

There were Christians in Rome and they were angered and ashamed that an apostle would wind up like this - but they were not bothered enough, or too frightened, to do anything about it.  You know…inconvenience and all that kind of thing.

But none of these excuses stopped Onesiphorus for he had the gift of mercy. He had come all the way from Ephesus to Rome searching for Paul and found him chained in prison.

To say the trip was inconvenient would be an understatement and to add that it was dangerous to be a Christian in Rome at this time goes without saying but he visited him anyway…and more than once.

Paul writes about it, “May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.  On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me…”  (Timothy 1:16-18)

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