“Give”
Let’s get one thing straight right at the start: The Lord our God is and always has been utterly perfect, whole, unimprovable, lacking nothing, and immutable. Nothing mortal man does or thinks can alter Him—either for better or worse—in any way. This does not mean that God exists in sterile isolation, unsensing, unfeeling, uncaring about His Creation, for He has emotions, feelings that run the gamut from tender, gracious compassion to fire-breathing wrath.
He—that is, the Godhead: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit—stands alone in the universe of His own making. No one else is so unchangeable and so holy as He.
Yet the Bible is filled with active verbs used to express something moving from us to Him—or even implying our ability to add something to what He already is.
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