p. 307 | Living by the Day

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 5, 1875

Living by the Day.

I COMPARE, says John Newton, the troubles we have to undergo in the course of a year to a great bundle of faggots, far too heavy for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one bundle, which we are to carry to-day, and then another, which we are to carry to-morrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's sticks over again to-day, and adding to-morrow's burden to our load before we are required to bear it.