The Gift of God

“If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”  John 4:10

“No one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God.  Now we have received the Spirit that is from God (the Gift of God), so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.”  I Corinthians 2:12

“For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the Gift of God.”  Ephesians 2:8

How can we not go, “Wow” over those lines of Scriptures that contain the powerful Truth.

Just think.  The Gift of God is not only salvation through Jesus Christ, but God’s Spirit coming into the human heart as not only living waters, but the very one who causes us all to understand ALL the gifts bestowed on us as His children.

Yet not only this, but He has come so that we may understand ALL the grace of God found in Jesus Christ.  Listen to this Scripture: “You have heard of this hope before in the Word of the Truth, the Gospel that has come to you.  Just as it is bearing fruit and growing in the whole world, so it has been bearing fruit among yourselves from the day you heard it and truly comprehended the grace of God.” Colossians 1:5-6

There truly is never any substitute as a Christian, for one great reality.  And that is, to know the Gift of God within ourselves who is the Spirit of the Living God.  He is the One who can make the Word of God real inside of us and cause all the grace from and through our Lord to be understood.

The only thing I’ve ever known, if I wanted to truly get the right answers, true growth, etc. or any need met and longing fulfilled, is to open my heart and let God be the One to do what He wants to do:  teach His true grace, become best friends with His Holy Spirit inside of me, let Him be the only Guide, Lord, Savior, Fulfiller, Satisfier, Hope, Blessing, Help, Master, Lover, Peace-Giver, Life (and the list is long).

In other words, let Him do what He does best:  Save us and make us what He desires through His life and Presence within.  He does it all through grace and His life within.

“Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd of the Sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, make you complete in everything good, so that you may do His will, working among us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.  Amen.”  Hebrews 13:20-21

His Love is Great, Deep, Everlasting – as is His grace for you and me,

Sue Gaither