“Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh”

“The gifts are intensifiers of desire for Christ himself in much the same way that fasting is.”

“By giving to you what you do not need, and what I might enjoy, I am saying more earnestly and more authentically, ‘You are my treasure, not these things.'”

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/good-news-of-great-joy-daily-readings-for-advent