| J.R. Miller D.D. | Page 15 |
What then shall we do with the things that would naturally make us anxious? For there are such things in every life. Here is the answer: “In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Instead of carrying your trials and troubles yourself, the things that would fret and vex you, and worrying about them, take them to God, not forgetting to mingle praise and thanksgiving with your requests. Get them altogether out of your hands into God’s hands, and leave them there.
“Yes, leave it with him.
The lilies all do
And they grow–
They grow in the rain,
And they grow in the dew–
Yes, they grow;
They grow in the darkness, all hid in the night;
They grow in the sunshine, revealed by the light;
Still they grow.
“Oh, leave it with him.
‘T is more to his heart,
You well know,
Than the lilies that bloom
Or the flowers that start
Beneath the snow.
What you need, if you ask it in prayer
You can leave it with him, for you are his care,
You, you know.”
That is the lesson we should learn – the duty of peace and the secret of peace. It is the duty of every Christian to have peace. Not to have it is to reject the Master’s bequest – “Peace I leave with you… My peace I give unto you.” It is to refuse his gracious gift – a gift he died to have to give unto us. Not to have peace is to fail to have the fruit of the Spirit in our lives, for part of this fruit is peace. Every one of us should have peace. If we have it not we are living below our privileges; we are missing one of the great blessings of salvation.
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