But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
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Having the only one of something is a unique experience. It can be a simple pleasure, like a pair of shoes custom made for your hard-to-fit feet. Or it can be a not-so-healthy, prideful pleasure like a custom-built car, far too expensive to risk damaging by actually driving it. Or it might be a special stone you found in a creek bed on a day God spoke to you about a new direction for your life.
Luke 1:26-33
Having a one-and-only object is a pleasure, but giving it up could prove to be a painful sacrifice. If it's taken from you, the pain of deciding is removed. But if you are faced with the choice of giving or keeping, it becomes a test of your willingness to let go for a higher purpose. God the Father had only one Son—His only begotten Son—for whom His love must have been indescribable in human terms. But the Father chose to give up His Son for thirty-three human years—to watch Him suffer and die—all for the sake of we who were trapped in sin with no way out. God so loved the world that He gave His one-and-only Son.
The next time you are faced with the choice of giving or keeping a one-and-only thing, remember the choice God made 2,000 Christmases ago.
Giving enables us to . . . express our love to God.
David Jeremiah
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