He will take care of them too. He, at all events, makes the garden
and the field grow, and not I. My land is filled, not with the
fruit of my work, but with the fruit of His work. He will see that
I lose nothing by my labour. If I till the soil for God and for
God's children, I may trust God to pay me my wages.' Oh, my
friends, He who feeds the young birds when they call upon Him; and
far, far more, He who gave you His only-begotten Son, will He not
with Him freely give you all things? For, after all done, He must
give to you, or you will not get. You may fret and stint, and
scrape and puzzle; one man may sow, and another man may water; but,
after all, who can give the increase but God? Can you make a load
of hay, unless He has first grown it for you, and then dried it for
you? If you would but think a little more about Him, if you would
believe that your crops were His gifts, and in your hearts offer
them up to Him as thank-offerings, see if He would not help you to
sell your crops as well as to house them. He would put you in the
way of an honest profit for your labour, just as surely as He only
put you in the way of labouring at all. "Trust in the Lord, and be
doing good; dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed;" for
"without me," says our Lord, "you can do nothing." No: these are
His own words--nothing. To Him all power is given in heaven and
earth; He knows every root and every leaf, and feeds it. Will He
not much more feed you, oh ye of little faith? Do you think that He
has made His world so ill that a man cannot get on in it unless he
is a rogue? No. Cast all your care on Him, and see if you do not
find out ere long that He cares for you, and has cared for you from
all eternity.