One Day at a Time book pdf

If any one of us knows a word of hope or has picked up a message of
comfort anywhere, it is his plain duty to share it, these days. We owe it to
each other to cherish as exceeding precious, and to pass on to others, every
brave and helpful word or thought we come across.
Well, here is a splendid one for us all, and especially for those who have
most at stake in this great conflict, and are looking anxiously ahead and

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fearing what the weeks may have in store,--"As thy days, so shall thy
strength be." It is a great and glorious promise. And just a couple of verses
further on, it is caught up and included in one greater still,--"The eternal
God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms." Fathers and
mothers, with a boy, or more than one, perhaps, away on active service for
King and country, this promise is for you, to take to your heart and hide
there, like some precious secret between you and God,--As thy days, so
shall thy strength be.
Notice carefully, however, how the promise runs. Not, mark you, as your
life is, not as your years are, not even as your weeks are, but as your days,
so shall your strength be. For each day as it comes, God's promise is that
strength will be given you, but just for a day at a time. The way to live
under any circumstances, but especially in these hard weeks, is just a day
at a time. Leave to-morrow with God, my brother, until it comes. That is
what the Word of God lays upon you as a duty. Live this day at your best
and bravest, trusting that God's help will not fail you. And for the duties
and trials of to-morrow, however hard and heavy, believe that strength for
that day also will be given you, when it comes.
You cannot have failed to observe what an important place this way of
living had in the teaching of Jesus Christ. He was always trying to get men
to trust the coming days to God, and to live fully worthily and nobly today.
He was dead against the practice of adding to the burdens of to-day
fears and forebodings for to-morrow. It is in love to us, in His desire to
save