“Who followeth me shall walk in darkness never,
The light of life shall brighten all his way;
Nor things of time, nor things to come, shall sever
From him they love the children of the day.”
We are not to anticipate trial. God wants us to take the days as they come, building little fences of trust about each one, shutting out all that does not belong to it. We are not to stain to-day’s blue sky with to-morrow’s clouds. We are not to burden to-day’s strength with to-morrow’s loads. We are not to walk sadly in bright youth, when we have no sorrows, because we know that later in life we must meet pain and grief. “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Yet we should live in the glad days so that when the bad days come they will not overwhelm us. For no matter how brightly the sun shines about us to-day, it will some time grow dark. No holy living, no kind of preparation beforehand, can keep the affliction away. That is not the way God blesses his children. There are ways of living in the sunny days so that when the night comes we shall not be left in utter darkness.
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