{"id":6972,"date":"2018-01-06T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2018-01-06T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T11:35:25","slug":"the-gift-of-the-magi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=6972","title":{"rendered":"The gift of the Magi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source<strong>: www.odb.org<\/strong><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<strong>Mart DeHaan<\/strong><br \/>\nRead:\u00a0Matthew 2:1\u201312<br \/>\n<strong>We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.\u00a0Matthew 2:2<\/strong><br \/>\nA young married couple had more love than money. As Christmas neared, both struggled to find a gift that would show how much they cared for the other. Finally, on Christmas Eve, Della sold her long, knee-length hair to buy Jim a platinum chain for the watch he\u2019d inherited from his father and grandfather. Jim, however, had just sold the watch to buy a set of expensive combs for Della\u2019s hair.<br \/>\nAuthor O. Henry called the couple\u2019s story\u00a0The Gift of the Magi.\u00a0His creation suggests that even though their gifts became useless and may have caused them to look foolish on Christmas morning, their love made them among the wisest of those who give gifts.<br \/>\nThe wise men of the first Christmas story also could have looked foolish to some as they arrived in Bethlehem with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh (Matthew 2:11). They weren\u2019t Jewish. They were outsiders, Gentiles, who didn\u2019t realize how much they would disturb the peace of Jerusalem by asking about a newly born king of the Jews (v. 2).<br \/>\nAs with Jim and Della\u2019s experience, the magi\u2019s plans didn\u2019t turn out the way they expected. But they gave what money cannot buy. They came with gifts, but then bowed to worship One who would ultimately make the greatest of all loving sacrifices for them\u2014and for us.<br \/>\n<strong>Father in heaven, please help us to learn what it means to give what money cannot buy.<\/strong><br \/>\nGod\u2019s gift of grace is priceless.<br \/>\n____________________________________________________________________________________<br \/>\n<strong>INSIGHT<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>J.R. Hudberg<\/strong><br \/>\nThe gifts the magi brought were precious. But the worship they offered the King of Kings from bended knee and bowed head was of greater value than the material gifts.<br \/>\n<strong>How can you worship God today?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.odb.org By\u00a0Mart DeHaan Read:\u00a0Matthew 2:1\u201312 We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.\u00a0Matthew 2:2 A young married couple had more love than money. As Christmas neared, both struggled to find a gift that would show how much they cared for the other. Finally, on Christmas Eve, Della sold her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","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=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}