Be Not Anxious for To-Morrow by H. E. Sawyer-Hopkins

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · May 30, 1912

Be Not Anxious for To-Morrow

By H. E. Sawyer-Hopkins

H. E. SAWYER-HOPKINS

ARE you leaning on the promise, "As thy days, so shall thy strength be"? We are not to think of to-morrow; according to Matthew the evangelist, strength for to-day is all we have promise of. We are to follow Christ day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment.

When the Master took human nature upon him, he had no strength of his own. He depended wholly upon the Father for his daily strength. We remember that when the disciples took Jesus and went out into the boat, a storm came up, and the disciples were afraid. The trouble was they had lost Jesus. When the lightning flashed, they found him asleep in the boat. Then they cried out, "Master, carest thou not that we perish?" When Jesus awoke, he said, "Where is your faith?" He had no fears, for he had committed himself into his Father's keeping. When he said, "Peace, be still," there was a calm. Had the disciples pursued the same course, trusting themselves in the care of the great I AM, they, too, would have had no fears when the storm arose; for God's children are never absent from his mind. His protecting care is over all who trust him. "He has a thousand ways to provide for us of which we know nothing." Jesus says, "All power is given unto me." What for? —For you and for me. It is just as free to-day as ever; and since he tells us, "In nothing be anxious," what a blessed privilege is ours to ask daily for whatever we need!

Loma Linda, Cal.