"PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW." Without the Lord's giving and enabling we have nothing. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above; creatures apart from God are empty cisterns, dry wells, deceitful brooks. All good dwells in thy God and flows from Him to thee. Every crumb of mercy is from Christ. What He gives freely, cost Him groans, sweat, and blood, to procure for thee. View Him as the source of all good, and His atonement as the channel through which all good flows to thee. He gives thee thy temporal mercies, and thy spiritual blessings; He gives thee also the ability to enjoy them, and employ them for His glory. He directs all events, whether pleasing or painful. "Be not angry with yourselves," said Joseph to his brethren; "it is not you, but God." To Him therefore your mind should be directed in prayer, adoration and praise. Look above creatures and see the Lord's hand, as did Job, Eli, David, and Paul. Rest with unshaken confidence and filial resignation on His word, power, providence, and love; ever remember that all things come of Him. The Lord will give us that which is good, and heaven's blessing with it, if we look to Him, and walk with Him. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For Meditation:
He sank beneath our heavy woes,
To raise us to His throne;
There's ne'er a gift His hand bestows,
But cost His heart a groan.