"God is a Giver" (Acts 17:25)

 

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 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