Church of England -- Sermons; Sermons, English -- 19th century
Yes. Be not anxious for the morrow, and much more, be not anxious for
the life to come. Your Heavenly Father knew that you had need of
salvation long before you asked him. Eighteen hundred years before you
were born, he sent his Son into the world to die for you; when you were
but an infant he called you to be baptized into his Church, and receive
your share of his Spirit. Long before you thought of him, he thought of
you; long before you loved him, he loved you; and if he so loved you,
that he spared not his only begotten Son, but freely gave him for you,
will he not with that Son freely give you all things? Therefore, fear
not, little flock; it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the
kingdom.
And be not anxious about the morrow; for the morrow shall be anxious
about the things of itself. Be anxious about to-day, if you will; and
‘work out your salvation with fear and trembling;’ for it is God who
works in you to will and to do of his good pleasure; and therefore you
can do right; and therefore, again, it is your own fault if you do not do
right. And yet, for that very reason, be not over anxious; for ‘if God
be with you, who can be against you?’ If God, who is so mighty that he
made all heaven and earth, be on our side, surely stronger is he that is
with you than he that is against you. If God, who so loved you that he
gave his only begotten Son for you, be on your side, surely you have a
friend whom you can trust. ‘What can part you from his love?’ St. Paul
asks you; from God’s love, which is as boundless and eternal as God
himself; nothing can part you from it, but your own sin.
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