Gods Sabbath

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child of God who trustingly commits all to the heavenly Father. If we wish to control our own affairs, we have to gather as much information as possible in order to lay our plans accordingly. But this is not necessary if we trust God to lay His plans for us. Our divine Plan Maker will reveal just as much as we need to know on a daily basis. This is the rule the Saviour gave us in His beau tiful sermon on the mount: “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:34. In the book of James we find some practical instruction as to how this rule can be applied in daily life. “Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.’ As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.” James 4:13–16. God works in the best possible ways for His children. He knows that their fragile faith is apt to crumble under the pres sure of today’s trials, without also heaping upon it the burdens of tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. Therefore, by revealing no more than the duties of a single day, He has chosen that which is for the highest good of His children. But we are not naturally inclined towards this divine plan. Our short-sighted wisdom declares that the only way to have peace is to know what lies ahead, in the distance as well as in the immediate future. This, in fact, produces the opposite ef fect—it fills the soul with anxiety and dread for what is coming. Furthermore, it loads onto our weak and trembling faith a bur den we are not able to bear. (See the story of King Saul’s visit to a medium in 1Samuel 28.) Jesus was aware of this human tendency, so He gave us the following counsel: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap