{"id":40888,"date":"2025-12-14T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godloves.me\/?p=40888"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:06:42","slug":"the-greatest-gift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/the-greatest-gift-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The greatest gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a child, I was allowed to write a Christmas wish list every year. I had many wishes, big and small, but only my three most important wishes ever made it onto the list. At Christmas, I was of course very happy when I was allowed to unwrap these precious gifts.<br>Over time, however, the significance of Christmas gifts has diminished \u2013 it has almost been forgotten. To be honest, I can&#8217;t remember what I got for Christmas when I was nine years old.<br>But the greatest Christmas gift won&#8217;t be under the tree this year either. Because this gift wasn&#8217;t bought or wrapped. It doesn&#8217;t belong to you or me alone. God gave us all this greatest gift on the first Christmas. Jesus came into the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em><em><em>For a child has been born, the future king has been given to us! And these are the honourable names that will be given to him: prudent ruler, mighty hero, eternal father, prince of peace.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<cite><em><em><em><em>Isaiah 9:5<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the greatest gift for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicable Bible text:\u00a0<strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibleserver.com\/KJV\/Luke2%3A1-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luke 2:1-11<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, I was allowed to write a Christmas wish list every year. I had many wishes, big and small, but only my three most important wishes ever made it onto the list. At Christmas, I was of course very happy when I was allowed to unwrap these precious gifts.Over time, however, the significance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40890,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40888\/revisions\/40890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.godloves.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}