If we give gifts to show our love, how much more would he? If
we - speckled with foibles and greed - love to give gifts, how much
more does God, pure and perfect God, enjoy giving gifts to us? Jesus
asked, "If you hardhearted, sinful men know how to give good gifts
to your children, won't your Father in heaven even more certainly
give good gifts to those who ask him for them?" (Matt. 7:11 TLB)

	God's gifts shed light on God's heart, God's good and generous
heart. Jesus' brother James tells us: "Every desirable and beneficial
gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading
down from the Father of Light" (James 1:17 MSG)


	
The hill of the cross is rich with God's gifts? Let's
examine them, shall we? Let's unwrap these gifts of grace as if
or perhaps, indeed for the first time. And as you touch them
as you feel the timber of the cross and trace the braid of the crown
and finger the point of the spike,  pause and listen. Perchance you
will hear him whisper:


"I did it just for you."