Taking Thought | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1871

“Taking Thought.”

NOTWITHSTANDING the Great Teacher has so beautifully and impressively shown us the folly of giving ourselves up to anxiety, with reference to the wants of to-morrow, how apt we are to do so. We do not really mean to be distrustful toward the overruling Providence, yet we often hang our heads in doubt, and pour out lamentations from our hearts, as if we had never been told of God’s faithfulness to his offspring, or that ever he “opens his hand to satisfy the wants of every living thing.” We should make up our minds to walk through all the changes of our earthly life in trust. If we would be and seem like men of “cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows,” we must consider to what improving tasks the trials of this world introduce us, and also reverently keep in mind the verity that God’s vision is boundless and impartial, while our own is small and dim, and opens and dilates out to see the things which come nearest to ourselves, and which, often, are only baubles or toys.—Sel.