Could you imagine covering yourself up in wrapping paper and giving yourself to someone as a gift? “Here’s your present—it’s me! I’ve searched the shops for the perfect gift—and I’ve concluded the perfect gift is me!” This is exactly what God did.

As a pastor, I have been led to think about the prophet Elijah in recent weeks – exhausted after his confrontation with the prophets of Baal. Running for his life, he sits and asks God to take his life away.