Trust for Daily Bread

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 22, 1879

Trust for Daily Bread.

HALF the world are in distress about their temporal support. Society is full of men who are disheartened by want of success, and fear of poverty. Their schemes have failed; disappointment makes them sad and dejected, and they think that they shall come to want. But a pious man must not yield to this despondency, nor cease from exertion. Let him still labor patiently, and hope for better days. Though he may not be able to see beyond this setting sun, or know how he shall obtain bread on the morrow, still let him work on as long as he finds work to do, and God will provide. The promise is absolute: "Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed."

Christians are guilty of criminal unbelief when they doubt the oversight and sympathy of God. Poor, faint disciples! Have they not read that their "Heavenly Father knoweth that they have need of these things?" Let them yield up their hearts to a feeling of perfect trust, and they will find a happiness which no wealth can give. This sweet confidence in God takes away all the weakness of distrust, and turns all sorrow into joy. Because of this child-like trust, many of the poor of this world, who were rich in faith—like the shepherd of Salisbury Plain—have been the happiest of men.

It is instructive to see how the poor saints are provided for. Yonder lives a widow who seems to have hardly the necessaries of life. Yet he who feeds the young ravens when they cry, feedeth her. He awakens sympathy; he creates a feeling of kindness in many hearts, so that her bread and water do not fail. One who had a long experience of life, declared, "I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread."—Sel.