Presentable & Pleasing

“When they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, they were overcome. Falling to the ground at his feet they worshiped him. Then they opened their treasure boxes full of gifts and presented him with gold, frank-incense, and myrrh.”

Matthew 2:11 TPT

Sarah and Bryce had been asking us all week when we were going to wrap the Christmas presents. For some reason, they love for us to wrap them early and place them under the tree. 

So, Jason started wrapping them. I came back to the room to see how he was doing. He was almost done, but the pile seemed so small. We had spent the same amount as we had in other years, but compared to last year the stack of gifts was so much smaller. You see things they asked for this year were much more expensive than other years. So even though the same amount was spent as other years. This year everything appeared so much smaller. 

There was just something about that stack appearing so small that bothered me. I knew how much we paid and I wanted it to look better than that.  I came up with an idea to place all the small boxes into bigger boxes and wrap them again! That way they would have to unwrap each present twice.  It also made each present appear bigger than what they really were and filled up the space under the tree. 

I know it was all probably unnecessary, I didn’t need to go to all the extra work. The kids had nice presents and even things they had asked for. But it wasn’t about that. I had a desire to present the gifts in a way that would be pleasing to my children. 

As we were doing all of this it came to my mind. Some of us feel that what we have to offer to God is small or insignificant. But don’t forget, God paid the same amount for the small packages as He did the big ones. You still need to offer them to God. They are still nice things, things that He has asked for. Just because what you have to offer might be small, it doesn’t mean that you didn’t pay alot for it. It doesn’t mean you don’t have a lot to offer. 

When the wise men offered gifts of gold, frank-incense, and myrrh to Jesus, these items were not large presents. But they still paid a great price for them. When the wise men offered gifts of gold, frank-incense, and myrrh to Jesus, they weren’t left unwrapped or just put in an ordinary box. They presented their gifts in “treasure boxes”. They took great pride in presenting these items to Jesus. 

God wants you to take great pride in what you have to offer Him. Do not be worried that it’s too small or not enough. Package up what you have to offer and make it presentable & pleasing to God. Sometimes what you have to offer is all in the presentation.https://goo.gl/images/xpByZp