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Children love to get presents. You can see their excitement grow as Christmas or a birthday approaches.
They clap, they giggle, they run around the room, smiling broadly. They just can’t wait to open their presents. In fact, you would be surprised, and even concerned, if you saw a child looking at presents and not wanting to open them.
In our first article, we looked at that popular verse from John’s Gospel: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life” (John 3:16). If we take a closer look at this passage, we see that there are two parts to this verse. The first part has to do with God’s gift to the world. He gave his only Son to save us from sin. But like all other gifts, this one too has to be accepted and…
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It is our weakness due to which we fall to the ways of the world and draws us away from the love of God, But God doesn’t angry because he knows our weakness, that’s why he helps us to get up again when we fall into sin.