It’s kind of sad to look under a Christmas tree, that just a day before had gifts wrapped and ready to be received, and see that gift that was not picked up by the intended recipient.  That person was thought of, shopped for, and the price has been paid for him to have that gift, yet he doesn’t have it, because he has not received it.  He was invited, but when everybody else gathered for the happy occasion of opening the gifts, he wasn’t there.  Maybe he bought a farm and had to go see it, maybe he bought a yoke of oxen and had to go prove them, or maybe he married a wife.  Whatever his perceived reason, he didn’t get the gift.

Second Corinthians 9:15 says, “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.”