SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/20/2018
7:24 PM
My Worship Time Focus: God is a
Giver
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 17:25
Message of the
verses: 25 nor is He served by human
hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;”
We have just looked at God, whom Paul is describing in
our main point, (Recognizing Who God Is), as the Creator, and also the Ruler,
and so it would be absurd to imagine that He should need to be “served by human
hands, as though He needed anything.”
Let us look to see what Eliphas had to say about this in Job 22:2-3 “2 "Can a vigorous man be of use to God, Or
a wise man be useful to himself? 3 “Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if
you are righteous, Or profit if you make your ways perfect?” Next we look at Psalm 50:9-12 “9 “I shall
take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds. 10 “For
every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. 11 “I know
every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine. 12
“If I were hungry I would not tell you, For the world is Mine, and all it contains.”
Now we know that it is far from God to need anything from
man, and so we will go on and see that God “gives to all life and breath and
all things,” which we can see in Psalm 104:14-15 “14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man, So that he may bring forth food from the
earth, 15 And wine which makes man’s heart glad, So that he may make his face
glisten with oil, And food which sustains man’s heart.”
Paul writes the following in Romans 11:36 “For from Him
and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.” Next we look at what Paul wrote to Timothy in
1 Timothy 6:17 “17 Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the
uncertainty of riches, but on God, who
richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.” James comments the following in James 1:17 “Every
good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.”
It is not only to God’s children, those who belong to Him
through the shed blood of Christ that He gives to, for Jesus says in Matthew
5:45b “for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain
on the righteous and the unrighteous.”
I want to in closing quote from a Spiritual Diary that I
wrote on James 1:17 on Aug. 28, 2003, “If
I understand what Dr. Wiersbe says about this verse it could start out
something like this: Every gift that God
gives us is perfect, and the way that He gives it to us is perfect, and He
keeps on giving us gifts all of the time, even when we do not realize that He
is giving them to us, and God is not like the moving of the planets and stars,
for He never changes because He cannot change for worse because He is holy, and
He cannot change for better because He is perfect.”
Answer
to yesterday’s Bible question: “Jordan”
(2 Kings 6:46).
Today’s
Bible question: “Name the centurion of
the band called the Italian band.”
Answer
in our next SD.
5/20/2018
7:44 PM
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