When most people hear the word ReGift, they usually think of giving something away that they didn’t want in the first place. A candle with the wrong scent. A sweater that didn’t quite fit. A gift that was appreciated but not needed. ReGifting, in that sense, often carries a quiet implication of detachment.
But not all gifts are passed along because they lack value.
Some gifts are designed to be given away.
You receive them (or eventually discover them), sit with them for a season, and then, almost instinctively, you pass them along. Not because you don’t value them, but because their true purpose was never ownership. It was movement, progression, advancement.
Love is like that.
Scripture tells us that love did not start with us. It didn’t begin when we decided to be kinder, more patient, or more forgiving. Love began with GOD. And if love began with HIM, then love cannot exist apart from HIM.
Beloved, if GOD so loved us, we ought also to love one another. (1 John 4:11)
That changes how we understand what love is for.
When GOD’s love dwells in us, the goal is not accumulation, it’s perfection through expression. HIS love is meant to be ReGifted through earthly vessels. Through ordinary people. Through us.
When GOD Dwells in Us, and We Dwell in HIM
The name EMMANUEL reminds us that GOD is with us. But intimacy with GOD goes further than proximity. Scripture nudges us to consider something deeper: not only does GOD dwell in us, but we are invited to dwell in HIM.
And we have known and believed the love that GOD hath to us. GOD is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in GOD , and GOD in him. (1 John 4:16)
We dwell in GOD when we choose love.
Not theoretical love. Not spiritual language. But embodied love, toward real people, in real spaces, with real differences. The love of GOD shines most evident when we offer it to those who are unlike ourselves. Loving GOD’s creation means loving all of mankind, regardless of color, gender, social standing, or economic status.
When love is genuinely rooted in GOD, regifting becomes natural. We don’t have to force it. We simply allow what we’ve received to flow outward.
This Love is Without Fear
There is a kind of fear that keeps people distant from GOD, fear of judgment, rejection, or not measuring up. But love, when it is rooted in GOD, does something remarkable.
It removes torment.
Perfect love doesn’t demand performance. It doesn’t intimidate. It invites. When love is understood as something GOD initiated, fear loses its power. We no longer approach GOD as strangers trying to earn acceptance, but as recipients of a love that already decided to stay.
Love and GOD cannot be separated because love is not an attribute GOD uses. LOVE is who HE is.
The Perpetual ReGift
The beauty of GOD’s love is that it never ends with us. HIS desire has always been that love would move through conversations, kindness, restraint, forgiveness, and grace. Love received becomes love extended. Again. And again. And again.
This is the everlasting regifting cycle.
Not perfection in behavior, but perfection in willingness. A daily choice to let the love that found us be the same love that reaches someone else.
Has the love of GOD flowed to you…..or through you?
Affirmation
FATHER GOD,
We desire to dwell in YOU.
Thank YOU for loving us first and for trusting us with a love meant to be shared.
Thank YOU for YOUR grace that covers us while YOUR love is being perfected in us.
We commit to ReGift what we have received freely, intentionally, and with humility.
Teach us to walk in love, and to let intimacy with YOU shape how we love one another.
In JESUS’ name, Amen.