Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, December 6 (1:17)
“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 Source of all good. Every blessing we enjoy comes down from Him. He is the Father of lights, who is unchanging in His love and grace, and in whose dealings with us there is “no shadow cast by turning,” as the last, part of this verse has been translated. His face is ever toward us. In all circumstances we may go to Him in perfect confidence assured of a welcome and a sympathetic ear as we tell Him all that troubles and perplexes us. It Isaiah His joy to undertake for us. He delights to lavish His rood and perfect gifts upon His obedient children. If He seems to withhold it is because He has some better thing or us, or because we need to judge something His holy eye has detected in our ways which makes it necessary to treat is with reserve. When all is right He gives without stint an answer to our prayer.
―J. Denson Smith.