{"id":1314,"date":"2022-07-04T04:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2022-07-04T04:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:57:45","slug":"my-father-loves-giving-good-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/2022\/07\/04\/my-father-loves-giving-good-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"My Father Loves Giving GOOD Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bible Reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Matthew 7<\/li><li>Psalm 119:121-144<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Devotional Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As a father, and now as a grandpa, it\u2019s so much fun to give gifts to our kids and grandkids. On our most recent trip, we bought very little for ourselves, but everywhere we went, we saw things that we thought would be so fun to buy and give as gifts to our kids and grandkids. I wonder if that\u2019s how God feels about us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Matthew 7:11 Jesus says, \u201cIf you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!\u201d God longed for his people to have the very best. Remember what God said about his creation right before he created man? \u201cGod saw that it was good.\u201d (Gen 1:21) God had prepared a world, and particularly a garden, specifically for man, with everything man needed and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Gen 2:15) Then God created man, took him and put him in the garden He had made for them. Then, the icing on the cake was God giving man a wife. (Gen 2:18)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God loves to give gifts to his kids, even more than I do to my kids. James 1:17 tells us that \u201cEvery good gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who never changes.\u201d Romans 8:32 tells us, \u201cHe who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, we don\u2019t always recognize God\u2019s gifts, nor believe that what he is doing is actually for our good.&nbsp;The same God who created this earth, and created the garden of Eden specifically for man to not just survive, but to thrive, and who gave His own son to die in our place, is still doing the same today! &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rom 8:32 comes just after the verse we all know ; Rom 8:28 \u201cAnd we know that for those who love God all things work together for good&#8230;\u201d&nbsp;Interesting isn\u2019t it, that the \u201call things\u201d for Jesus meant dying on the cross.&nbsp;But, the good God was working was \u201cgiving us all things!\u201d (Eternal Life, the life of Jesus indwelling us, freedom from the power of sin, etc)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Declarations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What God does is ALWAYS good! Even if it doesn\u2019t feel like it, it is a gift from God for my good. (Jer 29:11, Rom 8:28)<\/li><li>Just like children learn to trust their parents, I need to learn to trust God and believe He loves me, that He knows what\u2019s best (omniscient) and that He is able to, and always does, what is best for me (omnipotent).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bible Reading Matthew 7 Psalm 119:121-144 Devotional Thoughts As a father, and now as a grandpa, it\u2019s so much fun to give gifts to our kids and grandkids. On our most recent trip, we bought very little for ourselves, but everywhere we went, we saw things that we thought would be so fun to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[130596],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-declarations-of-truth","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}