{"id":82746,"date":"2025-12-25T06:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82746"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:18:16","slug":"what-shall-i-give-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/what-shall-i-give-him\/","title":{"rendered":"What shall I give Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/OIP.fjjCemQIBxMS_g3eulVxSAHaEK?w=331&amp;h=186&amp;c=7&amp;r=0&amp;o=7&amp;dpr=1.5&amp;pid=1.7&amp;rm=3\" alt=\"Image result for what can you give jesus at christmas\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thinking of what to give Him this Christmas? \u00a0The wise men brought the Christ-child gold, frankincense, and myrrh; Katherine Davis boy gave his musical talent by playing his best for Him on his drum while Christina Rossetti, in her popular Christmas carol, gave her heart.<\/p>\n<p>He is not lying in a manger where you can visit with material gifts and does not need gold, frankincense, or myrrh. So, what can you give?<\/p>\n<p>You may have given Him your heart, but do you trust\u00a0Him with\u00a0<strong>AL<\/strong>L\u00a0your\u00a0heart\u00a0(Proverbs\u00a03:5), love Him with <strong>ALL<\/strong> your heart, soul and mind and strength (Mark 12:30) and seek Him with <strong>ALL<\/strong> your heart (Jer 29:13)? Do you give Him thanks with <strong>ALL<\/strong> your heart (Ps 138:1), keep His law with <strong>ALL<\/strong> your heart (Ps 119:34) and work at whatever you do with <strong>ALL y<\/strong>our heart (Colossians 3:23)?<\/p>\n<p>Why not\u00a0 \u201cgift\u201d yourself <strong>completely <\/strong>to the complete Gift that offers eternal life, by making the personal commitment to live a life <strong>fully <\/strong>surrendered to Him?<\/p>\n<p>Or would you rather we asked you this question: <strong>what shall I give up<\/strong> for Jesus who sacrificed everything for me? There must be sacrifices to make to fully follow Him, gains to consider loss for His sake (Philippians 3:7)<em>? <\/em>\u00a0Can you think of any?<\/p>\n<p>Your gift could be the decision to get rid of those idols that are keeping you from enjoying His precious promises to the fullest.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Thinking of what to give Him this Christmas? \u00a0The wise men brought the Christ-child gold, frankincense, and myrrh; Katherine Davis boy gave&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-60-second-motivator"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gift-to-Jesus.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82748,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82746\/revisions\/82748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}