Daily devotion – gift cards
Australians sitting on $1.4 billion worth of unused gift cards.
Approximately $1.4 billion worth of gift cards are being left untouched by consumers nationwide, a survey by financial comparison site Finder has revealed. One in three (35 per cent) of the 1039 respondents said they have at least one unused gift card, including 24 per cent who have two or more.
Have you ever been given a gift card and lost it, or worse still, not used it?
$1.4 Billion is a vast amount of ‘wasted’ money – or wasted gifts.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Bible tells us, proclaims that Christ died on Calvary for the sins of the world – all of mankind.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
The great tragedy of God’s fantastic offer of salvation and forgiveness is that NOT everyone has accepted His precious gift validated by Jesus Christ, the Son of God who died on the Cross at Calvary.
This time we are not discussing Bunnings vouchers, dining out cards, movie tickets or such. Not we are talking about eternal life.
You can purchase a gift card for someone but you cannot make them use it. That responsibility falls on their shoulders.
Gifts cards are fantastic when the moment they meet your need, your requirement of something they are designed for. At that moment you search for where you have placed them and when you find and utilise them, the gift is activated – your need met.
The Bible tells us that Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Everyone born into this world has a need – the need to be saved from our sin.
God has given each man and woman, boy and girl, the greatest gift to be set free from sin – His Son Jesus Christ, paying our penalty on Calvary, but it has to be activated by the receiver!
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I pray that you do not neglect God’s gift to you that needs to be redeemed personally.
Heb 2:3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,
This would be the greatest of all gifts to neglect – our salvation.