Article December 8, 1997 Issue

Nothing to wear!

Susan Bradway

We were newly married, watching every penny to make sure bills could be paid. I had just finished art school, where the only clothes I needed were jeans and sweat shirts. Now I was employed as a receptionist at the front desk of an insurance company. I had a few nice dresses, but after a couple of weeks I felt as though I was always wearing the same thing. When I got together for lunch with friends from neighboring offices, I couldn't help noticing their large wardrobes of quality clothing. Self-pity set in.

Then one evening I received a telephone call from my mother informing me that a member of our church and her five daughters had lost everything they owned in a house fire. "Do you have any clothing you could give them?" she asked.

When I hung up, I decided it was time to ask God how to solve this problem of lack. I opened my Bible to the Sermon on the Mount and read: "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, ... nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" And a few verses later the sermon says: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" (Matt. 6:25, 28–30). That was the answer! It wasn't my business to know how God is clothing His children, but rather to understand that He is at this very moment supplying all good to each of us. With this realization I felt a great sense of peace and trust in God.

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