Sunday, April 10, 2016

bird brain

Because I work kinda in the middle of nowhere I get to see wildlife like raccoons, snakes, bunnies and lots of birds.  Over the past few days I've been observing birds and thinking.  See I asked a question on Facebook recently after watching some birds.  Do birds look at us mowing and greet the event with the anticipation of people waiting for new food to be put out at Golden Corral?  When birds see me mow they flock to the bugs that are stirred up.  After watching another bird I was brought back to a specific passage because it was brought to my attention recently that when Jesus taught he used a lot of illustrations related to agriculture and the world around us.  In Matthew 6:25-34 he teaches us an incredible lesson about our worth, His love and not worrying.  Slowly read this and let it sink in. My dad showed me five things in this passage that we as humans worry about but birds do not.   Finances, food, future, fashion, fitness are things we worry about.  

25“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 than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look 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?27Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your lifee ?
28“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.






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