Confidence In God Poem by John Bowring

'Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.'

-Matt. ch. iv. v. 34.

Await not with dismay
To-morrow's threatening things;
Sufficient to the day
The evil that it brings.


O take no anxious thought,
If clouds of gloom prevail;
The past its blessings brought,
The future shall not fail.


Who feeds the fluttering birds,
Who paints the lily's cheeks,
In gracious smiles and words
To listening children speaks?


Sufficient to the day
The evil that it brings;
To-morrow's brighter ray
Has healing on its wings.


In God's paternal care
Find safety, comfort, rest;
Its bounties boundless are,
Its visitations blest.