In our minds what would be the greatest gift of all? Would it be a new home or car? How about an all-expense paid vacation? While all these things have their place in our minds, when we think about it the greatest gift of all has already been given. It is a gift that was given to all men, one that can make a difference in each person’s life. That gift was given by God. It is the gift of His Son. This gift needs to be thought of every day not just one time a year.

This precious gift given by God indicates His love for man. John records, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

Man is God’s creation. When God created the world, He prepared a place for man to live (Gen. 1). When man sinned, God could have allowed man to be destroyed, but His love for His creation led Him to send His Son to be the sacrifice for man’s sin. The sacrifice of animals that was to be done according to the Law of Moses, could not take away sin. The blood of God’s Son was the only sacrifice that could do this. The Hebrew writer put it this way, “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure … Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Heb. 10:1-10). This gift is beyond comparison, “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift” (II Cor. 9:15).

As with any gift, this gift from God must be accepted.

God does not force man to accept His gift, it is up to each individual. God’s gift can be accepted by following God’s instructions to procure it.

Believing in Jesus as God’s Son, repenting of sin, confessing Jesus before men, being baptized for the remission of sin, and living faithfully for God. God had given the greatest gift of all time. Will you not accept His gift on His terms?