All Things Come Of Thee

February 27

All things come of Thee.

1Chronicles 29:14 But who am I, and what is my people,

that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort?

for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above; creatures apart from God are empty cisterns, dry wells, deceitful brooks.

All good dwells in thy God, and flows from Him to thee.

Every crumb is from Christ. What He gives freely, cost Him groans, sweat, and blood to procure for thee.

View Him as the source of all good, and His atonement as the medium through which all flows to thee. He gives thee thy temporal mercies, and thy spiritual blessings; He gives thee also the ability to enjoy them, and employ them for His glory.

He directs all events, whether pleasing or painful.

“Be not angry with yourselves,” said Joseph to his brethren,” it was not you but God.”

To Him therefore your mind should be directed in prayer, dependence and praise. Look above creatures and see the Lord’s hand, as the Job, Eli, David, and Paul.

Rest with unshaken confidence and filial reservation on His word, power, providence, and love; ever remembering that all things come of Him.

The Lord will give us that which is good, and a blessing with it, if we are looking to, and walking with Him.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, -- from Jesus.

He sank beneath our heavy woes,

To raise us to His throne;

There’s ne’er a gift His hands bestows,

But cost His heart a groan.

James Smith