Have You Opened Your Package?

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In January of this year (2016), I ordered an updated version of McAfee Virus Scan for my personal tablet/laptop.  I opened the box from Amazon but never opened the McAfee dvd case.  I put it off for months and also ignored all of the alerts I received daily on my tablet saying my virus scan had expired.  My tablet doesn’t have a dvd rom built in, but I had purchased an external dvd drive when I bought the tablet.  I hadn’t opened the new dvd case because I couldn’t find my dvd drive so I kept putting it off.  Finally, last week, I went searching again and couldn’t find the drive.  I thought I had to have the drive to be able to load the software.   I finally went ahead and opened the McAfee dvd case.  To my surprise, there was no dvd.  There was just a credit-size card with instructions on how to activate the software over the Internet.  All this time, I thought I had to have something or do something else before I could open the package.  Then, when I opened the package, everything I needed was there.

This makes me think of salvation and how many people come to Christ but never open the gift they have received.  They think they have to perform, measure up, be good enough, fix something, say something, or do something to open it.  It is a FREE gift and everything you need is inside – nothing is required on your part!

I had professional photos of me taken last November.  Earlier this year, I decided I would enlarge one of them and use metallic markers to write out all of the things I AM in Christ and all of the things I HAVE in Christ.  When you don’t open the package, you miss all of these things you HAVE in Christ – FREE!  In this package, you have:

  1. FREEDOM
  2. The mind of Christwho I am in christ
  3. Eternal life
  4. Redemption
  5. Righteousness
  6. The Holy Spirit
  7. A spirit of power
  8. A spirit of love
  9. A spirit of a sound mind
  10. HOPE
  11. Joy
  12. Salvation
  13. An Inheritance
  14. Purpose
  15. A wonderful future
  16. An anointing
  17. Access to the Father
  18. Adoption
  19. Security
  20. Life
  21. Peace
  22. The Fruits of the Spirit

I felt like an idiot this week when I realized, after opening the McAfee disk case, that everything I needed was right there.  Have you opened the gift of salvation and found all of these things you have in Christ?  Maybe it’s time……….