Do such people get most work done?
Far, far from it. They take more trouble about getting a little matter
done, than simpler and braver men take about getting great matters done.
They fret themselves, they weary themselves, they waste their brains and
hearts--and sometimes their honesty besides--and if they fail, as in the
chances and changes of this mortal life they must too often fail, have
nothing for all their schemings save vanity and vexation of spirit.
But the man who will get most work done, and done with the least trouble,
whether for himself, for his family, or in the calling and duty to which
God has called him, will be the man who takes our Lord's advice. Who
takes no thought for the morrow, and leaves the morrow to take thought
for itself. That man will believe that this world is a well-ordered
world, as it needs must be, seeing that God made it, God redeemed it, God
governs it; and that God is merciful in this--that He rewardeth every man
according to his works. That man will take thought for to-day, earnestly
and diligently, even at times anxiously and in fear and trembling; but he
will not distract, and divide, and weaken his mind by taking thought for
to-morrow also.
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