The Gifts of the Cross

Max Lucado Daily Devotional

Max Lucado

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Have you ever wondered why God gives us so much? We could exist on far less. God could have left...

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered why God gives us so much?
0:04.0	We could exist on far less.
0:06.0	This is Max Locato.
0:08.0	God could have left the world flat and gray.
0:10.0	We wouldn't have known the difference, but he didn't.
0:13.0	Why give the flower of fragrance?
0:15.0	Why give food its taste?
0:17.0	Jesus asks, if you hard-hearted, sinful men know how to give good gifts to your children,
0:22.8	won't your father in heaven even more certainly give good gifts to those who ask him for them?
0:28.9	Every gift reveals God's love.
0:31.6	But no gift reveals his love more than the gifts of the cross.
0:35.7	They came not wrapped in paper, but in passion.
0:39.0	Not covered with ribbons, but sprinkled with blood, the gifts of the cross.
0:43.7	Have you taken time to open these gifts?
0:46.9	If you do, perhaps you will hear him whisper.
0:50.6	I did it just for you.
0:53.4	This is Max Locato.

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