We were told by our precious Savior: “The very hairs on your head are all numbered: not a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father.” It would bring a Holy calm over your mind, dear friend, if you were always to remember this.
It would so relieve your mind from anxiety, that you would be the better able to walk in patience, quiet, and cheerfulness as a true child of God. When a man/woman is anxious he/she cannot pray with faith; when he/she is troubled about the world, he/she cannot serve our Master, and his/her thoughts are serving oneself.
If you would seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness,” all things would then be added unto you. You are meddling with Christ’s business, and neglecting your own when you fret about your lot and circumstances. You have been trying “providing” work and forgetting that it is yours to obey.
Be wise and attend to the obeying and let Christ manage the providing. Come and survey your Father’s storehouse, and ask whether He will let you starve while He has laid up so great an abundance in His garner? Look at His heart of mercy; see if that can ever prove unkind! Look at His inscrutable wisdom; see if that will ever be at fault.
Above all, look up to Jesus Christ your Intercessor, and ask yourself, while He pleads, can your Father deal ungraciously with you? If He remembers even the sparrows, will He forget one of the least of His poor children? “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee. He will never suffer the righteous to be move!”
“My soul, rest happy in thy low estate,
Not hope nor wish to be esteemed or great;
To take the impress of the Will Divine,
Be that thy glory, and those riches thine!”
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