Will you not trust Him for a crumb? – Thomas Brooks

Believers should trust and lean upon God for lesser gifts.

Has God given you a crown and will you not trust Him for a crumb? Has He given you a house which has “foundations, whose builder and maker is God?” Has He given you “a kingdom which cannot be shaken?” And will you not trust Him for a cottage, for a little room in this world? Has He given you Himself, His Son, His Spirit, His grace and will you not trust Him to give you bread, and friends, and clothes, and other necessary mercies which He knows you need? Has He given you the greater and will deny you for the lesser? Surely not!

Will you trust that man for much who has given you but a little? And will you not trust that God for a little who has given you much? Will you not trust Him for pence who has given you pounds? O sirs! has the Lord given you Himself, the best of favors and will not you trust Him for the least favors?

Has He given you pearls and will not you trust Him for pins?

Does not the apostle argue sweetly in Romans 8:32, “He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?” What! says the apostle, has God given us His Son, His only Son, His bosom Son, His beloved Son, the Son of His joy, the Son of His delights? Oh how can He then but cast in all other things into the bargain such as wrapping paper and packing thread?

Oh! that Christians would learn to reason themselves out of their fears, and out of their distrusts as the apostle does. Oh! that Christians would no longer rend and rack their precious souls with fears and cares, but rest satisfied in this that He who has been so kind to them in spirituals, will not be lacking to them in temporals.