MURMUR NOT by Mrs. W. L. Coffee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 14, 1901

MURMUR NOT

By Mrs. W. L. Coffee

MRS. W. L. COFFEE

How can we murmur if we realize that God is leading us, that He loves and cares for us? Just as He led ancient Israel out of Egypt, the land of bondage, so He is leading us out of the darkness of sin and unbelief, into the glorious light of His blessed truth.

Have you met with hardship and danger on the way? So did His ancient people. But you say, “My trials are peculiar.” In what way, my brother? We have an High Priest who was tempted in all points like as we are. Let us trust in Him, and what now seem like stumbling-blocks in our way, will become stepping-stones to the land of promise.

When sometimes the way seems so hard that we can scarcely realize that His hand is leading us, then we can say, with one of old, “He knoweth the way that I take.” Yes, blessed thought! He knows. Sometimes that is the most that our faith can grasp. But just then let us hold on to that, and soon will come the thought, He cares. If He cares for me, surely He loves me, even me, praise His name! I am rich in the love of our Father in heaven,—rich in the promise of an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away.

“My brother, my sister, press on; the goodly land is just before you, and the Hand that leads you is strong to uphold and deliver. “Be strong and of a good courage,” for “the eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.”