Dark Days | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1875

Dark Days.

“THE future looks dark. How can I bear this burden on and on?”

Stop a moment. “Can you not bear your burden of to-day—this one day?”

“Oh, yes, I can get through this day.”

Well that is all that is required of you. Did not the blessed Jesus say, “Take no thought for the morrow?” Try it to-day, and at night you shall lie down upon your pillow with your hand in his and sleep sweetly. How well he knew what is good for us! “He in his days of feeble flesh” was tempted as we are. The cross lay at the end of his journey, and who shall say that he had no temptation to think the way onward to be rough and hard? But he yielded not, and in the strength of his own experience he could say, “Take therefore no thought, . . . . Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

Besides, none ever know the infinite tenderness of the Guiding Hand but those who do implicitly trust all to the Heavenly Father. See the child at play on the carpet with its toys. How happy it is as long as its mother is at hand. But let that mother be withdrawn for a little, and it soon puts up its lip to cry. When it gets more experience the parent can leave it for a longer time, but then it must be frequently assured that mother is only in another room and will come back soon. Just so we soon grow doubtful if the face of our Heavenly Father is hidden from us. Let us take his word, and trust him in dark days as well as in the cheerful sunlight.—Sel.