In August of 2003, I started e-mailing Chaplain Gordon Ritchie. It was around Christmas of 2003 when he told me that his mother was an immigrant for Holland. Just couple of months before that I had met a woman , Tina who was herself an immigrant from Holland. I got an idea that the perfect gift for Gordon would be to learn how to write Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in Dutch. I went and asked Tina if she could teach me how to write it in Dutch. A week before Christmas I sat down at the computer and in the subject box I typed in Vrolijke Kerstmis en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar. When Gordon got the e-mail he thought I had lost it. I was embarrassed and crushed as I explained to him what it was. It was not the perfect gift.
How many of you can relate to this story? You think you have the perfect gift for some one on your list and when you give the gift to the person, you find out that it really was not the most perfect gift. The Bible tells us that there was only one perfect gift and that gift came from God. It was the gift of His only son. “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16.
We are at that time in the year when we all start looking for that perfect gift. We will spend a lot of time looking for gifts that in three or four years may end up on a table at a yard sale. I encourage you today to take a look at your list. How many of your friends and family members do not know about the perfect gift that God has given us. We should take the time to tell our friends and family members about this gift God has given us. We will give them a gift that will last for eternity and it will not end up on a table in a couple of years.
