A Special Gift

 
Many of us are thinking about gifts to buy, and some of us have already bought them! I'd like you to consider another gift to give this year.

I read this hymn the other morning and thought it the perfect poem to guide our thoughts this Christmas season. This gift is for someone special. And it can be a lifelong gift.

Something for Thee

Savior, Thy dying love Thou gavest me,

Not should I aught withhold, Dear Lord, from Thee:

In love my soul would bow, My heart fulfill its vow,

Some of'fring bring Thee now, Something for Thee.

At the blest mercy seat, Pleading for me,

My feeble faith looks up, Jesus, to Thee:

Help me the cross to bear, Thy wondrous love declare,

Some song to raise, or pray'r, Something for Thee.

Give me a faithful heart, Likeness to Thee,

That each departing day Henceforth may see

Some work of love begun, Some deed of kindness done,

Some wand'rer sought and won, Something for Thee.

All that I am and have, Thy gifts so free,

In joy, in grief, thro' life, Dear Lord, for Thee!

And when Thy face I see, My ransom'd soul shall be,

Thro' all eternity, Something for Thee.

Sylvanus D. Phelps, 1816-1895 

 Don't forget to give the greatest gift you can give this Christmas season. Yourself for Christ.