p. 221 | GOD A REFUGE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1880

GOD A REFUGE.

It is hard to keep the helm up against so many cross-winds as we meet withal upon this troubled sea of life. I therefore cast all my concerns on the Lord. In the midst of painful events, I say with myself, Is this an affair in which God will not choose for me? or is it an affair in which he will choose otherwise than well? Can infinite wisdom be mistaken? Can perfect goodness intend me evil? Have I left my eternal interests with God, and can I not trust him with those of time? I find that while faith is steady, nothing can disquiet me; and when faith totters, nothing can establish me. If I stay myself on God, and leave him to work in his own way and time, I am at rest, and can sit down and sleep in a promise, even when a thousand troubles rise up against me; therefore, my way is not to plan beforehand, but to go on with God day by day. “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”—Leaflet.