{"id":23318,"date":"2019-12-22T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T23:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23318"},"modified":"2019-12-22T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T23:09:15","slug":"why-all-these-noise-and-disturbance-over-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=23318","title":{"rendered":"Why all these noise and disturbance over Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Giver\u2019s Delight<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>Remi Oyedele<\/strong><br \/>\nToday in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.\u00a0Luke 2:11<br \/>\nRemember Tickle Me Elmo? Cabbage Patch Kids? The Furby? What do they have in common? Each rank among the twenty most popular Christmas gifts of all time. Also included on the list are familiar favorites such as Monopoly, the Nintendo Game Boy, and Wii.<br \/>\nWe all delight in giving\u00a0gifts at Christmas, but that\u2019s nothing compared to God\u2019s delight in giving\u00a0the first Christmas gift. This gift came in the form of a baby, born in a Bethlehem manger (Luke 2:7).<br \/>\nDespite His humble birth, the Child\u2019s arrival was proclaimed by an angel who declared, \u201cI bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord\u201d (vv. 10\u201311). Following this magnificent news, a \u201cheavenly host\u201d appeared, \u201cpraising God and saying, \u2018Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests\u2019\u201d (vv. 13\u201314).<br \/>\nThis Christmas, enjoy giving gifts to your loved ones, but never lose sight of the reason for the giving\u2014the spectacular favor of God on His creation crystallized in the gift of His own Son to save us from our sin. We give because He gave. May we worship Him in gratitude!<br \/>\nWhy is Jesus the greatest Christmas gift you ever received? How can you share this gift with others more effectively?<br \/>\nFather, thank You for Jesus\u2014the greatest gift of all!<br \/>\nAdapted from <strong>Our Daily Bread (www.odb.org)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giver\u2019s Delight By Remi Oyedele Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.\u00a0Luke 2:11 Remember Tickle Me Elmo? Cabbage Patch Kids? The Furby? What do they have in common? Each rank among the twenty most popular Christmas gifts of all time. Also included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772,5777],"tags":[518,566],"class_list":["post-23318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith","category-features","tag-christmas","tag-giver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}