| Dr. J.R. Miller | Page 13 |
Another of our Teacher’s reasons why we should not worry is that worrying is a sin. The Gentiles, He says — that is, heathen people — do it, but they know no better. They have never been taught about our God, that He is a Father to His children. They know only the idolater’s gods, which can do nothing for their worshippers. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Gentiles are often anxious about the future, or that life’s confused events perplex them. But we know God. We know that He is our Father. We have His promises. It must seem strange to the angels that Christian people, who call themselves God’s children, and have such assurances of love and divine care and faithfulness as fill the Bible pages, should ever be anxious.
Perhaps the very richness of God’s goodness and the unbroken continuity of His favors and mercies are reasons why we fail to get all the comfort we should receive from the divine Fatherhood.
Some one has said that if only once or twice in a century God were to unveil the starry heavens, showing us the glory of their splendors, all men would look up in awe to adore and worship. But because every night the sky is unveiled to us and its wondrous beauty shown, we walk about on the dark earth and scarcely ever see the stars. If there were breaks sometimes in the flow of God’s goodness, we would better appreciate its wondrous meaning; but living evermore beneath its benedictions, we do not realize its fulness and blessedness. Yet surely, with such a Father, caring for us more constantly and more tenderly than any human mother cares for her child, we ought never to worry. Anxiety is not merely an unhappy feverishness, an allowable weakness: it is sin, for it is doubting God.
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