| The Ministry of Comfort |
Chapter 13 |
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Not only are the days short, so that we can go on to eventide with our work or our burden, but they are separated as by an impassable wall so that there may be no overflowing of one day’s care or responsibility into the field of another. Night drops down its dark curtain between the days, so that we cannot see today anything that is in tomorrow. Our Lord taught us that we sin if we let ourselves try to carry the load of any but this one little day. “Be not anxious for tomorrow,” he said; “for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” If we allow ourselves to borrow anxiety from tomorrow we shall find that we have a greater load than we can carry. There is just enough for our full measure of strength in the duty and the responsibility of the one day. If then we add to this the burden also of tomorrow, our strength will fail. We do great wrong to ourselves, therefore, when we go out of today to get burdens which do not belong to us.
“I thank Thee, Lord that Thou dost lay
These near horizons on my way.
If I could all my journey see,
There were no charms of mystery,
No veiled grief, no changes sweet,
No restful sense of tasks complete.
I thank Thee for the hills, the night,
For every barrier to my sight;
For every turn that blinds my eyes
To coming pain or glad surprise;
For every bound Thou settest nigh,
To make me look more near, more high;
For mysteries too great to know;
For everything Thou dost not show.
Upon Thy limits rests my heart;
Its safe Horizon, Lord, Thou art!”
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