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Every Good Gift from Above

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Every Good Gift from Above

By: Richard Chenevix Trench
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 Every good gift and every perfect gif is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights. IT has, I think, been devised wisely and well that the services of to-day should stand, if possible, in some connection with the celebrations which will fill up the remainder of the week. You, who have sought that such a connection should exist, have thus declared many things. You have declared first, that you have no intention nor desire to separate the gift from the Giver—to glorify the one, and to forget or leave out of sight the other—to make much of man at the expense of Him who is the God of man, and from whom all the wit, wisdom, intelligence, or goodness that any man has ever possessed, originally came; being, as these are and must he, little fragments, so to speak, of the divine heart or mind. You have declared that for you, in the words so opportunely occurring in the service of this morning, “every good gift is from above, from the Father of lights;” so truly the Father of all lights, that each other lesser light can only have been derived from his, and must have been kindled first at his authentic fires. Nor less do you declare that as all things come of Him, so we are hound to render unto Him thanks for all; and if for the magnificence of that earth which He has framed for man’s dwelling-place, for the hills which He has set so fast with his power, for “this brave over-hanging firmament fretted with golden fires,” so it behoves us first and chiefly to praise Him for his most excellent creature man, “the beauty of the world,” the crown of things, the first-fruits of his creatures; and if for man, then most of all for those men who marvellously transcend their fellows, who, “framed in the prodigality of nature” or of grace, reveal to us the possibilities of greatness or of goodness which are in man. Yes, apart from all the pleasure or profit which we may have of these, we are bound to praise Him that He has given such gifts unto men, shewn them capable of receiving the same; for such is the fellowship of our race, so intimately are we bound up with one another, that what is given to one may in some sort be considered as given to all, and from that one, glory and honour to redound to all. Christian Living Christianity Devotionals
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