Page:MyPrayerBookHappinessInGoodness.djvu/64

 Nothing is  difficult  to  God,  since  His  wisdom  is  equally infinite. God desires  our  good  with  an  infinite  desire, since His  goodness  is  without  limit. What can  be  more capable of  inspiring  us  with  great  confidence  in  Him?"

"Have confidence"  (Mark  vi.  50). Let your  care be to  possess  your  soul  in  peace  and  tranquillity;  let no accident  be  to  you  a  cause  of  ill  humor.

ne secret  of  a  sweet  and  happy  Christian  life  is learning  to  live  by  the  day. It is  the  long  stretches that tire  us. We think  of  life  as  a  whole,  running  on for  us. We can  not  carry  this  load  until  we  are  three score and  ten. We can  not  fight  this  battle  continually for half  a  century. But really  there  are  no  long stretches. Life does  not  come  to  us  all  at  one  time;  it comes  only  a  day  at  a  time. Even to-morrow  is  never ours until  it  becomes  to-day,  and  we  have  nothing whatever to  do  with  it  but  to  pass  down  to  it  a  fair  and good inheritance  in  to-day's  work  well  done,  and  today's life  well  lived.

It is  a  blessed  secret  this,  of  living  by  the  day. Any one can  carry  his  burden,  however  heavy,  till  nightfall. Any one  can  do  his  work,  however  hard,  for  one  day. Any one  can  live  sweetly,  patiently,  lovingly,  purely, until the  sun  goes  down. And this.is  all  life  ever  means to us  —  just  one  little  day. "Do to-day's  duty;  fight to-day's  temptations,  and  do  not  weaken  or  distract yourself  by  looking  forward  to  things  you  can  not  see, and  could  not  understand  if  you  saw  them." God gives us  nights  to  shut  down  upon  our  little  days. We can not  see  beyond. Short horizons  make  life  easier