Twenty-fourth Day — Confidence in God
1. God is the greatest parent of mankind; our Lord Jesus Christ has taught us to call him Father. Not a hair can even drop from our heads without his knowledge. His providence reaches from end to end, disposing all things sweetly. What madness, therefore, to doubt of his protection, or to be slow in trusting ourself to his guidance!
2. The insects are an object of his care; how much more we who are created to his image, and redeemed by the blood of his only-begotten Son! If God feed the infidels, who know him not; if he heaps favours on the impious, by whom he is blasphemed, what will he not do for Christians who honour and love him?
3. Our affairs are much better off when in his hands, than they can be in our own: let us therefore leave them all at his disposal. He is at the same time our Father and our Creator. The tenderness he has for his children obliges him to take care of them. He has promised us his protection; he will then be as good as his word. Sooner shall the heavens and the earth he destroyed, than that man should perish, who places his confidence in God.
Examine your heart, and see whether your confidence be worthy of the goodness of God, and the merits of Jesus Christ.
“Thou art my God: my lot is in thy hands.”
Psalm xxx.
“Throw yourself upon him,
he will not withdraw to let you fall.”
St. Augustine.