To see people generally, one would think they were afraid of not being unhappy enough, and did not believe our Lord's saying, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof;" or else that they were so full of their own wisdom, as not to be content with doing what God has appointed them to do, but think that they can do what God keeps in His own hands better than He can. They act as if they thought—and they do think so too—that they know how to manage God's affairs better than He does. Therefore it follows that all this anxiety and trouble about the future, of which we hear and see so much, not only causes great misery, but great sin too. It is a want of that faith, without which it is impossible to please God.

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