“Do not err, my beloved brethren. 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.” (James 1:16-17)
Though his readers of that day were scattered far and wide James considers them “brothers,” and a part of the family of God. We are cautioned elsewhere in the Bible to not be deceived. In the last days deceivers will be worse and worse.
Don’t be deceived. Every good and perfect give comes from God. Satan offers nothing good. None of the world’s religions have anything of eternal value to offer. (Christianity is a relationship, not a religion.) God alone offers good and perfect gifts. Only through Christ Jesus, the Son of God does one receive the gift of eternal life.
In God there is no variableness or shadow of turning. He is always the same. Jeremiah the prophet said, “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are no consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22-23) He is faithful, changeless immutable and “He is the same yesterday, today and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8)
He, who is changeless, offers the gift of eternal life to all who will receive it.
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