Beloved friend, observing your forwardness and zeal in seeking to know how you might please God, and save your soul, I thought it would be acceptable and profitable to you, if I should, by the infallible rule of God's word, direct you how, with most certainty, speed, and ease, you might attain to this your holy aim. Wherefore, considering that most of God's children make their lives unprofitable and uncomfortable, by troubling themselves about "many things," and that too much in things less needful; by caring and fearing what shall befal them and theirs hereafter, with respect to this present life,—that you may obtain "that one thing needful," and contain yourself within your own line and calling, I exhort you heedfully to apply yourself to do each present day's work with Christian cheerfulness, and to bear each present day's evil with Christian patience.
Friday, December 25, 2009
One Day at a Time
Henry Scudder, The Christian's Daily Walk, p. 1:
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What a helpful thing for him to say.
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