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Saturday, December 26 2009
While humans sometimes give gifts to each other, for various reasons, all good gifts are ultimately from God.
"1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." (James 1:17-18 KJV)
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above"
God's greatest gift of all is Truth; from Truth comes eternal life.
"4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." (John 4:10-14 KJV)
God's Truth is delivered by the Holy Spirit to repentant people.
"2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." (Acts 2:38-39 KJV)
With the Gift of Truth comes the responsibility to accept it.
"6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned." (Hebrews 6:4-8 KJV)
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This Day In History, December 26
1492: Christopher Columbus established the first Spanish settlement in the New World.
1531: Protestant reformer Martin Luther stated that, "The inner man is a saint; the outer man is a sinner."
1620: Plymouth Colony was established by the English Mayflower colonists. In 1691 Plymouth joined other settlements to form Massachusetts.
1776: After crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey, George Washington led an attack on Hessian mercenaries and took 900 prisoners.
1806: Napoleon's army was stopped by Russian forces at the Battle of Pultusk.
1852: The sailing ship Marco Polo, built in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, was declared the fastest ship in the world. The ship had sailed from Liverpool, England, to Melbourne, Australia, and back in 140 days. The trip usually took 240 days.
1862: 38 Santee Sioux were hanged in Minnesota for their part in the Sioux Uprising.
1865: James Mason invented the first American coffee percolator.
1898: Radium was discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie and G. Bemont.
1932: An estimated 75,000 people were killed by a severe earthquake in China.
1943: British naval forces sank the German battleship Scharnhorst.
1962: 8 East Berliners escaped to West Berlin by crashing through border gates in an armor-plated bus.
1972: Former U.S. President Harry Truman died at age 88.
1975: The Tupolev-144 became the world's first supersonic aircraft to go into regular service, carrying mail from Moscow.
1979: The Soviet Union sent an additional 5,000 troops into the Afghanistan conflict.
1991: The gun that Jack Ruby used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald sold for $220,000.00 at an auction.
