is gifts to
you, your hand would be tired long before you had done. You might easily
make a list of the presents given you on your birthday, but you could not
make a list of what God gives you every day of your life.

"All things." All the things you really need, and a great many more
besides. All the things that will do you good, a great many more than you
would ever have thought of. All the things that He can fill your little
hands with, and trust you to carry without stumbling and falling. _All_
things, everything that you have at all!

"To enjoy." Now how kind this is! not only "to do us good," but "to
enjoy." So you see He means you to be happy with what He gives you, to
smile and laugh and be glad, not to be dismal and melancholy. If you do
not enjoy what He "giveth," that is your own fault, for He meant you to
enjoy it. Look up to Him with a bright smile, and thank Him for having
given you richly all things to enjoy!

"My joys to Thee I bring,
The joys Thy love hath given,
That each may be a wing
To lift me nearer heaven.
I bring them, Saviour, all to Thee,
For Thou hast purchased all for me."

12. Twelfth Day.

Much more than this.

"The Lord is able to give thee much more than this."--2 Chron. xxv. 9.

Amaziah, king of Judah, was going to war against the Edomites. He thought
he would make sure of victory by hiring a hundred thousand soldiers from
the King of Israel, and he paid them beforehand a hundred talents, which
was about L34,218.15s. of our money. But a man of God warned him not to
let the army of Israel go with him, for Israel had forsaken the Lord, and
so He was not with them. It seemed a great pity to waste all that money,
and so Amaziah said, "But what shall we do for the hundred talents which
I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord
is able to give thee much more than this." So Amaziah simply obeyed, and
sent the soldiers away, and trusted God to help him to do without them.
Was it any wonder that he gained a great victory over the Edomites?

Does not this teach us that we should simply do the right thing, and trust
God at any cost? When you do this, you will find that, in hundreds of ways
which you never thought of, "the Lord is able to give thee much more." The
trial comes in many different ways. One may be tempted to hurry over
prayer and Bible, because there is something else that she very much wants
to get done