“AND WENT AND TOLD JESUS.”
By Mrs. M. C. DuBois
Dear Mothers, do you fully realize the blessed privilege of telling Jesus all about the daily trials and perplexities you meet? If you do not, you miss many rich and precious blessings. Ofttimes, perhaps, you think of those sorrowing disciples, who “went and told Jesus,” and it may be you have wished at times that Jesus was here in person, so that you too could go and tell Him your heart sorrow. You can go and tell Him. You can tell Him just as surely as if He were here in person, and you could really see Him. He is just as real to-day as He was when those sorrowing ones went to Him; and it is our privilege to go and tell Him our sorrows. I know this from experience. Reader, have you a sorrow of any description? Go and tell it to Jesus. He may not always take away the sorrow, nor remove the hard trial; but He will comfort and stand by your side. In the little daily perplexities that a mother meets in the home, no one knows as well as Jesus. “There are so many trivial cares,
That no one knows and no one shares—
Too small for me to tell,—
The failure of some household scheme,
The ending of some pleasant dream,
Deep hidden in my breast;
The weariness of children's noise,
The yearning for that subtle poise
That turneth duties into joys,
And giveth inner rest.” Some may say, “Why take such little things to ‘Jesus?’” Because— “These little things, however small,
Are known to Jesus, each and all.” And then, too, He has invited us to cast all our cares upon Him, with the assurance that He cares for us. And He means just what He says. He loves you, tired, discouraged mother; let this fact comfort you. There are days when everything goes wrong. Husband is cross, children fretful, the housework drags, “the help” is saucy, and everything about the house seems inclined to turn bottomside up, and tangle into snarls. How such days try the mother! Just drop everything and fly to the place of secret prayer, and have a little talk with Jesus. It will help wonderfully. We can tell Jesus all our heart. As a good old lady once said to me, “You can trust Jesus with ‘your secret trials; He will never tell any one.” Our dearest earthly friends sometimes betray our confidence; but Jesus never. Weary wife and mother, get more into the habit of going to Jesus in the cares of daily life,—those, I mean, that you can not with a little perseverance and well-directed energy remove yourself. Talk with or to Christ as to the dearest earthly friend. O, we miss so much by not taking Jesus at His word. ’Tis so sweet to trust Him in the little as well as the large trials of daily life. Mrs. M. C. DuBois.