God's love is greater than we can imagine. God gave us his only Son, Jesus Christ to earth as a human being. He was born to a young woman named Mary in a little town called Bethlehem in part of the Roman Empire around 2000 years ago. God humbled himself and became a human being like us, with flesh and blood, pain and suffering, joy and sorrows, anger and peacefulness. Jesus lived on the earth for about 30 years, but never travelled more than a couple of hundred kilometers from where he was born. He taught the people and healed their sick. He set people free from their addictions and other bondages. As foretold in the Bible, Jesus was executed by being nailed to a cross to die.

We value the gift of Jesus because when he died God placed on him all the things that we have done that disappoint ourselves and God and that cause us to separate ourselves from God and his love. Every bad thought, every unkind word, every thoughtless act, even the deliberate wanton acts of every human being that has ever lived, were placed on Jesus Christ.