27 Apr 2023
Follow the giver
"To this John replied, ‘A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.'" (John 3.27 NIVUK)
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." (James 1.17 NIVUK)
The world tempts me with envy and doubts;
I want more "gifts".
But God gives "good and perfect gift"
and I trust him, the giver.
I follow the giver,
not the gifts.
The gifts come out of his pleasure to give,
not because they are due me.
The gifts should not distract me
from looking at his love.
I follow the giver,
because he loves me
and I love him.
"We love because he first loved us." (1 John 4.19 NIVUK)
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