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Consider the Lilies

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 39.

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Consider the Lilies.

By James B. Kenyon

CONSIDER the lilies, O my heart, Poor heart, so slow, so late to learn! Thou more than meat and raiment art; Wilt thou still earthward yearn?
Consider the lilies, how they grow; O heart, they neither toil nor spin, Yet they are clad in robes like snow; Art thou as pure within?
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass, Shall he not clothe thee, as he saith, Clothe thee upon with righteousness, O thou of little faith?
Behold the fowls of the air; They sow not, neither do they reap; They take no thought, no carking care, They neither watch nor weep;
And yet the Father feedeth these. O heart, where is thy boasted trust? No more of sloth or doubting ease; Arise from out the dust!
Go, get thee to thy work again; Know thou that verily in the Lord Thy labor can not be in vain: Thou shalt have thy reward.
No sparrow falleth to the earth Without the Father, and thou art Than many sparrows of more worth, O faithless, foolish heart!
Therefore take thou no anxious thought; Thy strength shall still be as thy day: The birds and lilies have not wrought, But thou art more than they.
— James B. Kenyon, in Christian Advocate.