Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
The first word means giving itself; the second, the perfected gift, just as sin in its early stage contrasts with sin finished and bringing forth death. God, the Creator of all lights in heaven, cannot author sin, which is darkness. The heavenly bodies know shadow and eclipse, but in God there is no alternation, not even the shadow-mark of turning.
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Every good thing you possess, whether benevolent in character or entire and wanting nothing, comes from God above. Evil has another origin entirely. As the sun pours light on the farthest corners without shadow or cloud, so God diffuses moral light and purity across the universe, for there is no darkness in Him at all.
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God cannot be the source of sin, whether in your afflictions or in the rod's stroke upon you. The fault is entirely yours, not His. There is nothing in God's nature, no lack of wisdom, power, or holiness, that could tempt Him to evil, and therefore He cannot tempt any man. The carnal mind loves to shift blame onto God, but that is hereditary dishonesty from Adam onward.
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Commenting on James 1:13-18