Testimony Treasures, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

You commit sin and deny your Saviour by dwelling on gloomy things,
by gathering trials to yourself, and by borrowing troubles. You bring the
troubles of tomorrow into today, and embitter your own heart, and bring
burdens and a cloud upon those around you, by manufacturing trials. The
precious probationary time that God has given you in which to do good and
become rich in good works you are very unwise to employ in thinking
unhappy thoughts and in airy castle-building. You suffer your imagination to
run upon subjects that will bring you no relief or happiness. Your
daydreaming stands directly in the way of your obtaining a sound, healthy,
intelligent experience in the things of God and a moral fitness for the better
life.
The truth of God received into the heart is able to make you wise unto
salvation. In believing and obeying it you will receive grace sufficient for the
duties and trials of today. Grace for tomorrow you do not need. You should
feel that you have only to do with today. Overcome for today; deny self for
today; watch and pray for today; obtain victories in God for today. Our
circumstances and surroundings, the changes daily transpiring around us, and
the written word of God which discerns and proves all things--these are
sufficient to teach us our duty and just what we ought to do, day by day.
Instead of suffering your mind to run in a channel of thought from which you
will derive no benefit, you should be searching the Scriptures daily and
doing those duties in daily life which may now be irksome to you, but which
must be done by someone.
Lessons From Nature
The beauties of nature have a tongue that speaks to our senses without
ceasing. The open heart can be impressed with the love and glory of God as
seen in the works of His hand. The listening ear can hear and understand the
communications of God through the works of nature. There is a lesson in the
sunbeam and in the various objects in nature that God has presented to our
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