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Trust in God

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 2, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 18.

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Trust in God.

“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.”
O LORD! how happy should we be If we could cast our care on Thee, If we from self could rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love, Is working for the best.
How far from this our daily life! Ever disturbed by anxious strife, By sudden, wild alarms; Oh, could we but relinquish all Our earthly props, and simply fall On Thy Almighty arms!
Could we but kneel, and cast our load, E’en while we pray, upon our God, Then rise with lightened cheer, Sure that the Father, who is nigh To still the famished raven’s cry, Will hear, in that we fear.
We cannot trust Him as we should, So chafes fall’n nature’s restless mood To cast its peace away; Yet birds and flow’rets round us preach, And all, the present evil, teach, Sufficient for the day.
Lord, make these faithless hearts of ours Such lessons learn from birds and flowers, Make them from self to cease, Leave all things to a Father’s will, And taste, before Him lying still, E’en in affliction, peace.