“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things” – Matthew 6:25-26, 31-32
LIGHT FOR NOW: The believer in his view about God must come to see God in Christ where He is perfectly and accurately revealed and explained.
We’ve been looking closely into Apostle James’ words in previous studies; James 1:5 “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him”. Now, let’s pay close attention to James 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”. The word “variableness” was translated from a word that implies a variation, a change, a mutation, or something that is enhanced. So there is no mutation, growth, increase or decrease about God. One of the wrong notions we have is when we think God is the one that changed. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. The word “turning” implies a shift or to change. In other words, there is no shift of view. So, God doesn’t give one view today and present another some other time. The word “shadow” implies something like sunset, fainting images, not a full light, dim light.
The reference about the Old Testament people not having the revelation of God is not God speaking in shadows because God doesn’t speak in shadows, he doesn’t have that manner or that thought. See how James had earlier described God. He had one of the most practical explanations of God. One who gives; the only thing God takes away is sin and that taking away is a gift. Glory!
INSTRUCTION: Do not err in your view of God.
CONFESSION: I see God in the New Creation in Christ. He is good; there is no evil in him. He does not change. Hence, I am not anxious because I know He is a good God, Amen.
QUOTE: Receiving from God is easy when you have a singular view of him.
DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: MATTHEW CHAPTER 22; EVENING: JAMES CHAPTER 1
LIGHT FROM THE WORD 