Tuesday, 15 December 2020

The GIft Giver

 

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. – James 1.17

 

God is the perfect gift giver. He is the only giver of the perfect gift of salvation.

 

But it goes deeper than that. He also dispenses love and joy and peace and mercy and grace and endurance and power to get through our every day lives.

 

I am certain that none of us could get through this life without God’s good and perfect gifts. He is the Father of the light we need. He never varies. There is never even a hint of turning away.

 

God’s gift of salvation and His daily gifts to carry us through life will not change and cannot change because He is the Gift-giver. In Him, unlike us, there is no changing and there is not even a hint of change. He is always there and always ready to pour out his gifts. He is not an ‘Indian giver’ (Actually I don’t like that phrase. It ought to be ‘pale-face giver’ because it was the white guys who made promises to the Indians and then took them back 😊).

 

Need a bit of grace today – the Gift-giver is still giving. Need a bit of love or mercy or strength or encouragement? Same God, same gifts.

So trust Him He never changes and never stops giving.

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