Look at the Birds

 

            This is the time of year when we are planting flowers around our house.  Winter is over, and spring is definitely here  as its shows its lovely face in the buds and blooms around the countryside.  I remember a time I discovered some bird eggs in one of our hanging baskets of flowers  on our porch.  Evidently, a bird thought that was a good place to lay her eggs.  As I looked at that nest of eggs, I was reminded of the words of Jesus about birds in the sermon on the mount:  “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. “  (Matthew 6: 25-26)  

            Many of you reading this are probably worrying about something today.  It might be something as trivial as what clothes you will wear for some special event coming up.  It might be that you are worrying  about something as major as what the doctor will tell you or how you are going to pay the bills.  Whether your worries be small or large,  remember the birds.   Though the bird does not know for sure where its next meal is still coming from, it still has a song to sing and it sings it to the glory of God.  Despite those things that worry you, you too still have a song to sing because you too have a heavenly Father that cares about you just as it cares about me.  Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall

PRAYER

            God, I praise you for the wonder and beauty of all your creation.  Help me to place my worries into your gracious hands knowing of your great love and care; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.