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Day Sixteen: Wrapping Presents
Gift giving is as old as Christmas itself, but people didn’t always wrap a gift before they gave it to someone. In the late 1800s, almost all gifts were handmade. Once people started purchasing factory-made trinkets and toys they wanted to make these gifts feel as though there was more effort put into them. So the gift-giver began wrapping these presents in brown paper and decorating them. As you wrap gifts this Christmas, remember that the very first Christmas gift was wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Read Luke 2:7.
7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
This was God Himself wrapped in the form of a baby, who came so that He could wrap all of us in His love.
Takeaway: Take a drive around your neighborhood and look for a house that has a Nativity scene. Think about what it means that the gift of Jesus came wrapped as a baby.
