Borrowed Trouble

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1903

THERE is one kind of trouble in the world which God never sends, and which never brings a blessing with it. It is the borrowed trouble which people get by giving anxious thought to to-morrow, instead of being content to bear the burden of to-day. That is the one kind of suffering which God bans and bars out of his kingdom, and yet even good people do not ban and bar it out of their lives. A true Christian on his death-bed confesses that the greatest worries of his life had been through his anticipations of evils which never arrived. As our Lord tells us, it is quite enough to bear those which do arrive; and we might take a lesson from the ravens, which may suffer from the hunger of to-day, but never from that of to-morrow.—S. S. Times.