Gift

Picture in your mind for a moment the gift that you really want to receive. And, one day, maybe on your birthday, your parents said you, "Here's the gift that you really wanted to have! You can have it." So, what do you need to do, when your parents say that to you? See, just because they said, "Here's your gift," it doesn't mean that it's yours, until you actually receive it from them! You have to go to your parents, say "Thank you," and receive the gift for yourself.

Do you realize God wants to give us the BEST GIFT ever in our lives? That BEST GIFT is Jesus Christ. By believing in Jesus Christ, we can have wonderful everlasting forever love relationship with God! God says, "I want to give this BEST GIFT to you for free." Would you receive it? Again, it's free.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16, NIV).

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Illustration adopted from Billie Hanks, A Call to Joy: Discipler's Guide (International Evangelism Association), 198.
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