AN EARLY GIFT
Today's reading: Song of Solomon 7-8

Isaiah has already begun asking if we can start opening Christmas presents. Just one, he'll say. I won't ask again, he promises. Everyone gets to but us, he moans. It'll just save us time on Christmas morning for more important things, he attempts to justify.

We continue (and I say 'we', holding back the fact that his Dad is just as big a kid as my 10 year-old, and wants to ask himself) to tell him no.

But I have a surprise for him and for you--an early Christmas gift!

"...For love is as strong as death, and its jealousy is as enduring as the grace. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. Many waters cannot quench love; neither can rivers drown in. If a man tried to buy love with everything he owned, his offer would be utterly despised." Song of Solomon 8:6-7 NLT

God loves you, and He loves you that much!

Maybe you'd forgotten.

Maybe you doubted.

Maybe you never knew.

Well, Merry Christmas--early!