the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Matthew 6:25. Casting all your care upon God, for he careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7. Be careful of nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. Philippians 4:6.
When a child of God is overcome and distressed by worries and thoughts of the future, it has ceased believing in God as its Father and in Jesus as its Savior and Shepherd; it denies by this unbelieving sorrow the faith in God and in Jesus, and is worse than a heathen; for a heathen knows nothing of God and His word and thus he can not believe. O thou miserable soul, awake! Have you forgotten that God is a loving Father to you, and that He cares for you as the most loving and tender father on earth can not care for his child? Have you forgotten that Jesus is your Brother, your Shepherd, and your Savior, who has promised you eternal life, of which He has even now given you by anticipation? Should not He give you what you need here? Have you ceased to believe that He has bought you with His blood? Should He now forsake you because of trivialities? Shall He take His hands that were pierced for you away from you? Look once more into His eyes or into His heart, and you shall see that your High-priest has not yet cast you away, that the hen has not yet trodden the life out of her chicks, and that the Shepherd has not turned away His sheep. You shall see that as a mother He yet carries you in His bosom. But look upward to Him! Otherwise you cannot see this. Look not only to the earth and earthly things, not only into yourself and round about your environments. Up, up to Him with your heart and mind! He cares and He must care for you. He cannot do otherwise. You are His and He will not let go of you.
Even the hour that darkest seemeth
Will His changeless goodness prove;
From the gloom His brightness streameth,
God is wisdom, God is love.
