SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION

James 1:16 KJV
Do not err, my beloved brethren.

OUR PRAYER!

Heavenly Father hear this petition before your throne. I  come in all humility to lay before you, praise beyond comprehension and worldly reasoning. We know you are unchanging in our lives. What the sun is in nature, Heavenly Father, you are in grace, providence, and glory; and infinitely more. We know every gift is from you particularly our being born again, and all its holy, happy consequences. As believers of your love and forgiveness we have become a different person through your divine grace. We pledge to devote all our faculties to your service, that we may be a kind of first-fruits of your creatures. This we pray in the name of Yeshua. And all of God’s children said Amen and Amen.

COMMENTARY!

It is not every man who suffers. That is blessed; but he who, with patience and constancy, goes through all difficulties in the way of duty. Afflictions can not make us miserable if it is not of our own doing.

The tried Christian shall be a crowned one. The crown of life is promised to all who have the love of God reigning in their hearts.

Every soul that truly loves God, shall have its trials in this world fully recompensed in that world above, where love is made perfect. The commands of God, and the dealings of his providence, try men’s hearts, and show the dispositions which prevail in them.

But nothing sinful in the heart or conduct can be ascribed to God. He is not the author of the dross, though his fiery trial exposes it. Those who lay the blame of sin, either upon their constitution, or upon their condition in the world, or pretend they cannot keep from sinning, wrong God as if he were the author of sin.

Afflictions, as sent by God, are designed to draw out our graces, but not our corruptions.  The origin of evil and temptation is in our own hearts. Stop the beginnings of sin, or all the evils that follow must be wholly charged upon us.

God has no pleasure in the death of men, as he has no hand in their sin; but both sin and misery are owing to themselves.

As the sun is the same in nature and influences, though the earth and clouds, often coming between, make it seem to us to vary, so God is unchangeable, and our changes and shadows are not from any changes or alterations in him. What the sun is in nature, God is in grace, providence, and glory; and infinitely more.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen.