"In Everything": Bringing Small Cares to God
“IN EVERYTHING.”—There is nothing that interests you that is too little to confide to your God in the solitude of closet prayer. You may enter into your chamber, and shut your door, and, secure of a kindly hearing, you may tell your Father which is in secret of little things that worry and vex you, and retard you in your spiritual life, which are yet so little that you would be ashamed to confess to your nearest friend how great a space they filled up in your heart. Fix it in your mind that there is no duty, however small, which we can perform without God's grace, no trial that we can endure without his aid; no enemy that we can defeat unless the Captain of our Salvation speaks to us the conquering word. Let us ever lay our wants before him; and find in his presence the remedy for all our anxieties and our fears: so shall we be careful for nothing, while in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, we let our “requests be made known unto God.”