Sufficient For Today, Its Care

January 3.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

DEUTERONOMY 33, verse 25.


Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

MATTHEW 6, verse 34.


Oh, ask not thou, How shall I bear
The burden of to-morrow?
Sufficient for to-day, its care,
Its evil and its sorrow;
God imparteth by the way
Strength sufficient for the day.

J. E. SAXBY.


He that hath so many causes of joy, and
so great, is very much in love with sorrow
and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures,
and chooses to sit down upon his little handful
of thorns. Enjoy the blessings of this day, if
God sends them; and the evils of it bear
patiently and sweetly: for this day only is
ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are
not yet born to the morrow. But if we look
abroad, and bring into one day's thoughts
the evil of many, certain and uncertain, what
will be and what will never be, our load will
be as intolerable as it is unreasonable.

JEREMY TAYLOR.