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The Unknown Future

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 37.

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The Unknown Future

It is not always best to try to know everything. God mercifully hides the difficulties that the future contains for us, in order that our spirits may not be alarmed nor downcast by them. He would not have us needlessly disturbed by the long contemplation of them; he knows that he will remove them, or help us through them when the time comes, and so he says: “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
“I know not what awaits me; God kindly veils mine eyes; And o’er each step of my onward way He makes new scenes to rise; And every joy he sends me comes A sweet and glad surprise.
“One step I see before me; ’Tis all I need to see: The light of heaven more brightly shines When earth’s illusions flee; And sweetly through the silence comes His loving, ‘Follow me.’
“So on I go—not knowing, I would not if I might; I’d rather walk in the dark with God Than go alone in the light; I’d rather walk by faith with him Than go alone by sight.”
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