Evening, September 1
Go To Morning Reading
“Trust in him at all times.”
Psalm 62:8
Faith is as much the rule of temporal as of spiritual life; we ought
to have faith in God for our earthly affairs as well as for our heavenly
business. It is only as we learn to trust in God for the supply of
all our daily need that we shall live above the world. We are not
to be idle, that would show we did not trust in God, who worketh hitherto, but in the devil, who is the
father of idleness. We are not to be imprudent or rash; that were
to trust chance, and not the living God, who is a God of economy and
order. Acting in all prudence and uprightness, we are to rely simply
and entirely upon the Lord at all times.
Let me commend to you a life of trust in God in temporal things. Trusting
in God, you will not be compelled to mourn because you have used sinful
means to grow rich. Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no
success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. Trusting God,
you will not be guilty of self-contradiction. He who trusts in craft,
sails this way today, and that way the next, like a vessel tossed
about by the fickle wind; but he that trusteth in the Lord is like
a vessel propelled by steam, she cuts through the waves, defies the
wind, and makes one bright silvery straightforward track to her destined
haven. Be you a man with living principles within; never bow to the
varying customs of worldly wisdom. Walk in your path of integrity
with steadfast steps, and show that you are invincibly strong in the
strength which confidence in God alone can confer. Thus you will be
delivered from anxious care, you will not be troubled with evil tidings,
your heart will be fixed, trusting in the Lord. How pleasant to float
along the stream of providence! There is no more blessed way of living
than a life of dependence upon a covenant-keeping God. We have no
care, for he careth for us; we have no troubles, because we cast our
burdens upon the Lord.