Editorial June 6, 1903 Issue

God's Giving, Abundant

To suppose that God withholds from His children any good gift is not wise, nor is it logical to believe that He withholds anything. Being good Himself He can have no gift to bestow which does not pertain to His own nature. "A good tree bringeth forth good fruit."

To wait supinely for something to turn up, or to stand in the careless attitude that most frequently says, "The Lord will provide," is not to make use of the means by which we qualify ourselves to receive the full measure of Love's bounty. We must know that He has already given in infinite quantity and quality, and we must do our part by being ready to accept, not with the listlessness of indolent self-satisfaction, but with the vigor of conscious and intelligent endeavor. Neither is it wise to doubt God's ability and willingness "to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think."

We sometimes feel the necessity of carefully weighing two propositions in order to decide which one we shall accept, and when we can see nothing beyond the finite, mutable, and material sense of things, there seems no other course open to us; but is this true where the things of God are concerned? May we not by this mental attitude limit our capacity to receive from God all that He has already bestowed upon us? May we not, by failing to place our trust wholly and unreservedly in Him, miss, for the time being, our opportunity of finding that He is very near to us, and that His beneficence is infinite?

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