OUR greatest anxieties are over difficulties that never come to us. A man stood on the shore of a frozen lake that he wanted to cross. He tried the ice here and there with a stick and it seemed safe, yet he doubted its safety. As he stood there in his anxiety a man, whistling and driving a yoke of oxen drawing a heavily loaded wagon, drove on the ice just a few yards above where he stood.
This illustrates the attitude of Christ’s followers. Some with doubts in their minds, and complaints upon their lips, live a life of ceaseless anxiety, worrying over every apparent difficulty. Others, with gladness in their hearts and songs on their lips, live in an atmosphere of perfect trust which is permeated with the precious promise, “Lo, I am with you alway.”