Every Good and Perfect Gift Is From Above! - Part 822

James wrote, "Do not err, my beloved .... because every good gift and every perfect gift is from our Lord God and Saviour above." (James 1:12-22)

James is warning believers here not to err in our understanding of Jesus' teachings. Nor His sacrifice. Instead, James is telling us to get His teachings right. The message? Our Lord God and Saviour does not cause bad things to happen to us on earth. Neither does He create calamity -- or orchestrate bad things happening to us -- as it was under the old covenant and the law. 

Admittedly, there are differences between the two dispensations -- the old covenant under the law and this current new covenant under grace -- but I would digress if I was to write about these now.

Rather, let me just say that we live today in the dispensation of grace --whereby our Lord God willingly became our Saviour. He shed His precious blood for us on a cross, and in so doing, tore the veil from top to bottom so that we would have a personal relationship with Him. He died for us even before we knew Him. He who knew no sin becoming sin for you and I. 

It is for this reason that we can be wholly confident that "every good gift and every perfect gift is from above."

"Do not err my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of His own will, begat He us with the Word of truth -- that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. Wherefore, lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word [Jesus] which is able to save your souls." (James 1:12-22)

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