Acts 1:4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about.

The gift God has promised us is not a gift which is all wrapped up in nice colourful paper and has a bow on it; but it is one which is worth waiting for and will last forever!

How often are you disappointed with a gift someone has given you or said they would give you? How often did you expect far more than you got?

Jesus did sort of explain it and we may well have been given a rough idea of what it is like to have Christ in our lives; but when we do experience what it is like, the gift is far more than we expect!

John 4:10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

This Samaritan woman was expecting nothing less than people reviling and mocking her – that is why she approached the well in the heat of the day when nobody else would be around!

What she got was the love of Jesus opening up to accept her back in to His fold; He was willing to forgive and forget even when the rest of the world seemed against her.

Don’t go looking for gifts from the world because they are all fickle and will not last; look for the gift from God and expect to have it for eternity!

Luke 21:2 He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.

When you read this story about the widow who put in a tiny offering in comparison to the offerings of rich people, which side of the story do you see?

Do you seen the worldly side which compares wealth and status with offerings, or do you see what Jesus was looking at?

Jesus was looking at the hearts of the people who came to place their gifts in the temple treasury; He saw the real size of the gifts people were offering and not the worldly view.

Are you willing to listen to people and find out their true worth?