Matt. 6:25-27
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”
This has to be one of my favourite verses of all. It is so much so for the thoughts that I am about to write that I’ve been thinking about for a long time. I took some time this morning to really process some things and as I was sitting outside on my front porch I watched the little birds out in our front pasture fly and scurry around. I was reminded again of this verse and how much significance it has and means to me. As I watched them, thoughts began to flood to mind and this is what I wrote:
As I sit here and watch the birds I am reminded, that every morning they are provided for. Every morning they have food, a place to live, freedom to roam in our yards, the air. They are blessed. I love in Matt how it is written that how much more value we have than them to You. If God puts so much detail in to providing for “the birds” – they have an endless buffet to eat at; their’s till their hart is content – If God can put so much time and effort in to providing for every single tiny and big bird on this planet, don’t you think he would do that much more for his people? His people whom we risked his only son for? His people whom he has not forgotten but thinks about them CONSTANTLY! Don’t you know that he already has done that much more for you and I? He has carefully ordained every single day so that you will have the specifics of what you need to accomplish what needs to be accomplished that day. He has already prepared the way. Those birds do not fret, do not worry, do not complain to one another about how they have so little or how the birds’ next door nests look better than theirs. They seek and they find. They wait and are ready for the harvest when it comes. They are expectant of what their maker provides for them daily. They do not groan, they do not find a corner and get depressed in because they have not. They are thankful for what comes. I will not waste my life worrying about what’s next or how its going to work out. My God is greater, stronger, You are HIGHER than any other. You are healer, awesome in power, my God. I trust you. I am confident in you who works all things for our good in time. I know you are for me. You have faithfully shown me time and time again. My trust is in Him. Not in man. Man cannot provide for me. Man cannot give me the essentials that I need daily. He will fail to be consistent and faithful. But not my God. My God has been and will always be faithful to the end. He is pure and without fault. I do not view trust with my God the way trust is with man. We are fallen and broken people therefore our words are fallen and broken words. We will fail every time to deliver a promise held at someone’s specific expectation. Thankfully, God overrules all expectations and promises made by man. HE is above it all. That is why my trust with him is secure because He will never fail to deliver. He is faithful.
