essay on God's gift
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Our lives are beautiful gifts from God, and how we live them out is our prayer of gratitude for such a gift. God well marked the path — not only to living a holy life, but also to having life in abundance all of our days and, then, receiving the gift of uninterrupted bliss for all eternity! The only condition for these gifts is that we must be lovingly obedient to God’s Ten Commandments and always love Him above all things and our neighbor as ourselves.
God gave us an example of how we are to live when God the Son was sent by the heavenly Father to preach forgiveness and mercy for repentance and to allow himself to be the final and complete sin offering for all the collective sins of mankind for all time — if man would but repent of evil doing, turn back to God and be obedient to His laws. Jesus was our Crucified Creator as all who came into the world came through Him, with Him, in Him and for Him.
He took possession of the human body and soul which He created in the virginal womb of the Mother of God. He never deemed equality with God something to be grasped, although He had the right to do so as the Third Person of the Trinity, God the Son. Rather, He became human in all things except sin, something totally impossible for Him as it is the opposite of His Divine Nature.
Jesus came for all who will turn to Him because He never rejects or turns away anyone who comes to Him. He will sup with us and never leave us orphans or abandon us. If we seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and Christ’s righteousness, He will also add everything we need for our earthly life. His death on a brutal and barbaric cross was God’s gift to His children, and this is something we should often meditate upon: what it cost God to save not only our souls, but even our very lives at times.