Apparently the cost of true love has increased this Christmas! If one were to buy one’s true love all the items listed in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas†one would have to spend £67,000 (Yes, there are sad people who bother to calculate this!). This is actually an increase of 6.1% when compared to last year (Yes, there are even sadder people who bother to make the comparison!).
Of course, giving an expensive gift is no certain measure of true love. Too often the expense of the gift is a smokescreen to cover something else, as in the case of parents who shower their children with luxurious presents to disguise the lack of time and attention they devote to them during the rest of the year.
At Christmas time we are reminded that the greatest gift comes in the form of a person, and through him the gift of eternal life. At Christmas we celebrate how God sent His son to live amongst us and die the death that was destined for us, so that we could share in the eternal life that belongs to Him.
The only gift that we can give in response both cost us nothing, and costs us everything. There is no money that we can give the Lord, there is nothing that we can do to match what He has given us. All He asks from us is simply everything, our lives.
“ God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die. “ (John 3:16)
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