Earlier this month I wrote about the 5 love languages, and throughout the month, #LoveBlog prompts will feature each love language individually. Today’s focus is receiving gifts.

Now, as I said in my love languages post, I think that the receiving gifts love language is probably misunderstood. It sounds materialistic. For me personally, even after coming to a better understanding of what that love language meant, I didn’t really identify with it. It’s not a top language for me.

But it occurred to me earlier this week that, regardless of your score on the love languages quiz, we all speak the love language of receiving gifts.

At least we do if we are Christians.

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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—Ephesians 2:8

We have received the best gift of all, and there is nothing that we can do in return that is worthy. All we can do is humbly and gratefully accept that which has been given.

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of you sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:38

You may remember that in my earlier post, I mentioned that a gift visual reminder of love. What do we have as our visual reminder of the gift Christ has given us?

The cross.

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The Bible, God’s letter to us.

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It’s definitely something worth thinking about: God has spoken love to us through the gift of His Son, and the sacrifice on the Cross.

Of course, God’s love is perfect, and ALL the love languages are available to us because He IS love! But even if you don’t identify with the receiving gifts love language, think about that gift today, and maybe you can appreciate that particular love language just a bit more than you did. I know I do.

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Thank you for reading! This post is inspired by the #LoveBlog February Challenge hosted by Belle Brita, introduced to me and co-hosted by my friend Charlene at Enduring All Things. Check out the introductory blog post for the challenge and link-up here.

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