I Give You My HeART!

 

"Great crowds from Galilee,

the Decapolis, Jerusalem, and Judea,

and from beyond the Jordan,

followed Him." Matthew 4:25

I don't think it comes as a surprise that

great crowds followed Jesus!

He was full of wisdom and spoke

with authority, 

He made the blind see

and the lame walk,

 and He was full of love and compassion!

 

Jesus wants that for us as well.

If we spend time with Him,

getting to know Him and His ways,

we will become more and more like Him,

filled with love and compassion.

 

"We have found the Messiah!" John 1:41
Can you imagine how exciting it was 

for the Jews to find Jesus after 

years and years of waiting for the Messiah? 

To find the One their hearts longed and yearned for? 

Are we just as excited today? 

God, the One who made us,

 loves us so much that He came as a little child, 

 walked the streets, cried, laughed, suffered, 

so that we might one day join Him in His Kingdom. 

If we could wrap our minds around this truth, 

 our lives would change forever!

 Just as Paul's life, just as His disciples' lives,

just as so many countless saints' lives changed!

 

Yesterday was the Feast of the 

Epiphany of the Lord, 

when Jesus' divine nature was revealed. 

The magi (probably monk-like mystics 

from a far-off, mythical land called Shir, possibly China. 

They are descendants of Seth, 

the righteous third son of Adam, 

and the guardians of an age-old prophecy 

that a star of indescribable brightness 

would someday appear 

“heralding the birth of God in human form.”) 

came and gave Jesus gifts of gold (for His Kingship),

 frankincense (for His being God), 

and myrrh (to anoint Him at His death).

 In some cultures, gift giving during 

the Christmas season is done on 

the Feast of Epiphany, 

and I was thinking of what I could give Jesus. 

I remembered Matthew 25:40, which reads, 

"The King will answer and say to them,

 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that 

you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, 

even the least of them, you did it to Me.'" 

So it's easy in a way to give Jesus a gift, 

 especially here in the Philippines, 

where so many are in need!

But we have to give with our love, 

because "the gift without the giver is bare" :
"The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,
In whatso we share with another's need,—
Not that which we give, but what we share,—
For the gift without the giver is bare;
Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,—
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me."
James Russell Lowell

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