Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

esponsible for five, or for two, but for the one.
Many neglect to lay up for themselves a treasure in
heaven by doing good with the means that God has
lent them. They distrust God and have a thousand
fears in regard to the future. Like the children of
Israel they have evil hearts of unbelief. God
provided this people with abundance, as their needs
required; but they borrowed trouble for the future.
They complained and murmured in their travels
that Moses had led them out to kill them and their
children with hunger. Imaginary want closed their
eyes and hearts from seeing the goodness and
mercies of God in their journeyings, and they were
ungrateful for all His bounties. So also are the
distrustful, professed people of God in this age of
unbelief and degeneracy. They fear that they may
come to want, or that their children may become
needy, or that their grandchildren will be destitute.
They dare not trust God. They have no genuine
faith in Him who has entrusted them with the
blessings and bounties of life, and who has given
them talents to use to His glory in advancing His
cause.
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