Lesson Three - Going Deeper Section 3

What do the following verses tell us about the source of all that we have?

1 Chronicles 29:14, 16
"But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand.

O LORD our God, as for all this abundance that we have provided for building you a temple for your Holy Name, it comes from your hand, and all of it belongs to you.

God gives us everything - so everything we give back is really from Him.

Isaiah 26:12
LORD, you establish peace for us;
all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

I got distracted by the definition of Establish because there were so many meanings. And I found ALL of them to be interesting when joined with peace.

1. To start or set up something: to start or set up something that is intended to continue or be permanent. God intends our peace to be permanent.

2. To place something permanently: to place something securely and permanently in a position, situation, or condition.

3. To confirm truth of something: to investigate something and prove or confirm its truth or validity. God intends us to know peace is the truth.

4. To cause something to be recognized: to cause something or somebody to become generally
accepted or recognized. God wants us to accept and recognize peace.

5. To grow, or cause a plant to grow, successfully in a new place. God wants peace to grow successfully in our hearts and he wants us to spread that peace into others successfully.

6. To make a church an official national institution. God wants peace to be the official national institution, just like a church - He wants it for Everyone.

Acts 17:25
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

God needs nothing from us - everything we have, we get from Him, just as anything He actually needed He could do for himself. (Just because he doesn't need, that doesn't mean he does not Want)

James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

He is unchanging (unlike us - who are constantly changing) and therefore every gift He gives is Good and Perfect... even if we cannot see it that way.