Look at that flower! It neither toils nor spins and why? Because your Heavenly Father clothes it!
Look at that bird! Leaping from bow to bow, springing from hill to valley, sparkling with beauty, gushing with song, and wild with ecstatic delight! It has not a thought or care of its own and why? Because God thinks and cares for it.
Oh, you of little faith! Why do you hesitate to trust all your personal interests,
to confide all your worldly affairs,
to disclose all your temporal needs and sorrows in prayer to God?
He is not too high for your lowest need nor too great for your smallest care.
"If the buzzing of a fly troubles me," says John Newton, "I may take it to God."
This is not mere sentiment. It is the practical embodiment of a principle of experimental religion most honoring to God and sanctifying to us the principle of faith, which acknowledges God in all our ways,
sees God in everything, and
takes everything, the smallest, to God.
[Octavius Winslow]
Matthew 6:26-32 ... Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
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