Matthew 6:25-33 (NIV) Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 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? Granted, this could sound like someone who just floated in from Never-Never Land, who never had any responsibilities in the real world. You’re trying to get a job, put gas in your car, take care of the kids, and juggle a bunch of debts, and he says don’t worry, just look at flowers and little birdies? Is he serious? Yes. This is Jesus talking, and yes, he is serious. He knows all your worries and responsibilities. In fact he knows every last thing that will happen in your life – he is after all the Son of God - and he still wants you to consider the birds and the flowers. Why? Because Jesus is pointing to amazing things being accomplished in lilies and sparrows that we normally never notice because we’re so fixated on our worries. Jesus says if you will just be still long enough to listen, creation is practically shouting something important about God that you need to know: somehow, with God. Somehow, those birds never worry and yet survive. Somehow, these amazing works of art blossom in fields untouched by human hands. Everything they need comes from God. Everything we need comes from the same God. So don’t be afraid. Jesus says in Matthew 10:29-31 (NIV) Are not two sparrows sold for a penny ? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Everything, all creation, is shouting to you that God is good and God is compassionate and God will provide. Somehow, with God. -from Scott Franks
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:08:17 +0000
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