My God and My Country

James 1:17 - Geneva Bible

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

Lord, my God, help me to understand Your word this morning, forgive and keep me from sinning, amen

Brethren:

God, does not change, He cannot change, nor will He change. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He is righteousness personified, in the flesh, through Christ, and in Heaven as Himself. There is no sin in Him, nor can He sin. Likewise he leadeth us not unto diver temptations. Temptations are from the evil hearts of men, that know no better other than to commit acts of unrighteous behaviors without a second thought for they love the carnality of this world, and look not towards the world to come. All, good things rain down upon us when He opens the windows of His great providence. Both the believer and the non-believer benefit from this act of His grace and mercy. The former gives thanks and glory to God, and the latter gives nothing back at all, for his life is of this life.  RP. Woitowitz Sr.

“The divine benignity is not subject to any such variations; it is always equally near, and equally communicative of its influences to proper objects; nor can any thing interpose between it and them: it is not the flush of good humour, which may be spent: it is not a great but limited treasury, which may be exhausted bylarge and continued communications. As God is ever unerringly wise, and unchangeably happy; as his power is infinite, and he is raised above the possibility of want or suffering; he will certainly always choose to do, what his wisdom determines best to be done; and as he ever deems the happiness of his creatures, who will accept of his mercy, to be the worthiest end, he will certainly be always disposed and delighted to promote that best end. The infinite communications of good, which he hath made already, instead of causing us to fear that his goodness may be exhausted, serve to prove it infinite, and therefore inexhaustible: they give, and they will give his faithful saints, to eternity, the most substantial reasons to expect from their Creator and Redeemer, all that can be expected from a Being infinitely wise, powerful, and benevolent.” Thomas Coke