Monday, February 18, 2013

"As Your Days, So Shall Your Strength Be!"

This lesson makes life 
easy and simple!

"As your days--
so shall your strength be!"
 Deuteronomy 33:25

We have nothing to do with
life in the aggregate--
that great bulk of duties,
responsibilities, struggles, 
and trials which belong 
to a course of years.

We really have nothing to do even
with the nearest of the days before us--
tomorrow. Our sole business is with
the one little day which is now passing.

Its burdens will not crush us--
we can easily carry them until
the sun goes down. We can always
get along for one short day--
it is the projection of life into
the long future, which dismays
and appalls us.

Each day is, in a certain sense,
complete life by itself. It has
  its own duties,
  its own trials,
  its own burdens,
  and its own needs.
The very best we can do
for the perfecting of our life
as a whole, is to live 
the one day well.

We should put all our thought and 
energy and skill into the duty of 
each day, wasting no strength,
either in grieving over 
yesterday's failures--
or in anxiety about 
tomorrow's responsibilities.

This lesson makes life 
easy and simple!

"Therefore do not worry about 
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry 
about itself. Each day has enough 
trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34

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GraceGems has published J.C. Ryle's uplifting article,
"Heirs of God".

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