Special Delivery

“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
1 John 4:9-10

I don’t know about you but I really enjoy getting packages in the mail or delivered by one of those big delivery services. At the church where I work, the drivers of the big “brown” trucks toot the horn as they pull up, so I know they are there. Most of the time, they are delivering something I ordered. Sometimes, it’s something someone else is expecting and once in a while it is something completely unexpected. Getting a package that contains a gift is especially fun. The celebration of just such a special delivery is almost here - can you feel the excitement in the air? Is something moving in your heart and mind?

Traveling at the speed of divine light the God of everything, the Creator of the universe who is not held by the bonds of time was delivered into a world driven by time as a peasant baby unwelcome at the inn because the kinfolk of his earthly parents didn’t understand. It was such a special delivery that it shifted time just a bit, it shifted from the time before Christ to the time since Christ was born. It was a special delivery that set a ripple in motion that ripples even now and will continue to ripple until His return when time will again shift.

It is a ripple of love that flows through everything allowing hearts to be changed when we choose to open the gift when it comes to us. Once that special delivery has been accepted and opened, we are compelled by His grace and love to share it with everyone around us.

It is a limitless gift, filled with the healing power of God’s love. It is the perfect gift for the one who thinks they have everything, but deep inside are still empty and searching for that one thing that will make a real difference in their life. If you know someone like that – it’s time to share the One – the Only One who can make that difference.

Jesus is the very best Special Delivery gift sent to you with love from The Father.

A Prayer
Father, what an incredible gift you sent special delivery to us, thank you. The gift of Your Son shifted time, healed broken hearts, restored battered soul and built a bridge back to Your heart. Help us to never take that gift for granted and to especially deliver it with those around us who believe they are unloved, worthless and hopeless – because You love them, value them highly and fill them with hope. In the name of Jesus, our special delivery gift we pray. – Amen.