3932 - Gifts of God by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 48.

3932 — Gifts of God

By Editor

Please explain Rom. 11:29., J. F.

The meaning of this text is simply this, that when God gives, and when God calls, He does not repent of it, even tho the gift may be despised and the calling rejected. That is the meaning of the text. He loved Israel for the fathers' sake, and He does not repent of His love. He gave them great things for the fathers' sake; He does not repent of the gifts. They may trample them underfoot, but some day, somehow, in His own time, all will be vindicated. It is so that His children ought to feel. If we have bestowed upon others out of a pure heart, and they utterly despise us, let us not regret our gift. No truly given gift will ever fail of its destined end so far as the giver is concerned. God sends His rain upon the just and upon the unjust, His sun shines upon all characters alike. In some, the goodness of God may lead to repentance; in others, it may harden their hearts against His goodness. But He is not sorry that He bestowed His goodness upon them.