AS THY DAY by Maclaren

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 7, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 44.

AS THY DAY.

By Maclaren

AND what does your anxiety do? It does not empty to-morrow of its sorrows; but, ah, it empties to-day of its strength! It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it when it comes. It does not bless to-morrow, and it robs to-day. For every day has its own burden. Sufficient for each day is the evil which properly belongs to it. Do not add to-morrow's to to-day's. Do not drag the future into the present. The present has enough to do with its own proper concerns. We have always strength to bear the evil when it comes. We have not strength to bear the foreboding of it. As thy day, thy strength shall be. God gives us—his name be praised—God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of his making; but he does not give us the power to bear sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.—Maclaren.