Only The Best Will Do or Perfect Best

This is the time of year

we start wracking our brains for perfect gifts

because only the best will do when it comes to saying

'I love you'

When considering our efforts of finding 'the best'

doesn't it evoke a picture of God, 

before that first Christmas morn,

looking down on the world, 

His heart shattered with love as He wept,

for He knew 'only the Best will do!'

when it came to proving His love

 for me and for you!

Matt.1:21

And she will bring forth a Son,

 and you shall call His name JESUS,

 for He will save His people from their sins.”

I LOVE the lyrics to the song below

First Christmas Morn

This is the time of year

Unlike the whole year through

When we choose gifts for loved ones dear

Only the best will do

In this season of love

Boxes and bags become

Vaults filled with motley treasures of

Socks, books, toys, candy, gum

Presents are squirreled away

In unsuspecting nooks

A kind of game that parents play

Lest Curious Youngster looks

Reason softens its stance

As love and prudence wrest

As budgets and hearts spar and dance

To find The Perfect Best

The Perfect Best is love

Therefore, love longs to show

The best it can, reflections of

First Christmas, long ago

When Heaven’s Perfect Best

God’s equal, put on man

Knowing the cost, did not contest

Salvation’s perfect plan

Because God loved us so

On that first Christmas morn

Into this sin-cursed world of woe

A Redeemer was born

For God looked from above

And He saw me and You

And said, as His heart broke with love

‘Only the Best will do’

So, God gave us a King

A gift beyond all ken

His only Son, Jesus, to bring

Peace and goodwill to men

A gift that saves the soul

And flings ajar a Gate

That leads to faith’s ultimate goal

Where God and heaven wait

Then pray, this time of year

We rev’rently recall

The Reason for the season, dear

The gift that says it all

For things are only things

Love is the Perfect Best

The gift that only Jesus brings

Makes perfect, all the rest

© Janet Martin

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that

He gave us His only begotten son,

that whosoever believes in Him

should not perish but have everlasting life

Phil.2:5-8

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

6Who, existing in the form of God,

did not consider equality with God

something to be grasped,a

7but emptied Himself,

taking the form of a servant,

being made in human likeness.

8And being found in appearance as a man,

He humbled Himself

and became obedient to death—

even death on a cross.