Every Good Gift

James 1:17-18

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. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

We learn much about God's character from these verses.

Everything good we have is from Him. We must thank Him daily.

He is the ultimate light--the Father of Lights. It is only by Him that we see truth.

He is the same today as He was yesterday and as He will be tomorrow. He doesn't turn to the right or to the left. He is solid.

He chose to create us to have communion with Him. He put us in dominion over the earth. We can choose to worship Him now (first fruits) or we will worship Him later when the whole earth (creatures, land, people, etc.) will worship Him.

Philippians 2:10 

That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;