12413- God's Generosity Does Not Change

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)

Thoughts: God does not need to change in order to grow.  God does not need get old or decay as we do (Isa. 40:31). He not only is the life giver, but He is life itself- the one who offers eternal life.  
     But God is also loving and generous- and that does not change.  He is the constant giver and provider.  If He were to withhold His breath we would melt.  Yet we count on the sun's rising and a new day not because of our own ability, or even a certain consistency in the solar system.  It is hard to trust an impersonal system.  Perhaps that is why too many people are continually looking for falling asteroids and Mayan calendar endings.  In contrast to the Chicken littles of our day are those who trust God both in life and in death.  God is trustworthy as well as kind and generous.  He doesn't change in His generosity as our verse above points out.  Every single gift we have is a gift from God.  All we see and have we did not make.
    So, we can trust God because He is trustworthy, faithful, and does not change.  His promises are true and reliable, but His being is also reliable and true.  In a world that is changing rapidly-sometimes in good ways and sometimes in bad- we can trust in the kind and faithful Father.

Prayer: Help me to have peace in you, O Lord.  Help me to find you are generous and kind- more than I deserve or even ask for. 

Mysteries
A. Trinity
The triune nature of God is the first great mystery of the Christian
faith. With Christians everywhere, we worship the only
true God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - who is both one
essence and three persons. God is infinite, eternal, immutable,
impassible, and ineffable. He cannot be divided against
Himself, nor is He becoming more than He has been, since
there is no potential or becoming in Him. He is the source
of all goodness, all truth and all beauty, of all love and all life,
omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The three persons
are consubstantial with one another, being both coeternal,
and coequal, such that there are not three gods, nor are there
three parts of God, but rather three persons within the one
Godhead. The Son is eternally begotten from the Father, and
the Spirit proceeds eternally from the Father and the Son. All
three persons are worthy of worship and praise

(Sunrsie over Galilee)