Let’s learn a lesson from these birds. They DON’T worry!
Where will their food come from? Well the last few days they have dined at the “All You Can Eat Buffet Outside Dan and Staci’s Window”. The bird feeder for short. It’s finally turned cold here in Mississippi, but the birds continue to thrive. Where will they stay? They find perches and roosts in shelters provided by trees and shrubs. Notice though, that they do work, they do hustle, they are full of activity to continue living their lives. They also are BEING what God has created them to be.
What are they not doing? Sitting on the couch watching “I love Lucy” or maybe watching “Keeping up with the whoevers”. What I’m saying is that they are not watching the world go by, waiting on a handout. If my feeder goes empty, or my dancing cat decides to stay too close to the feeder, they move on. They search for their next meal. If you yourself can be classified as a “hard-working, and honest” citizen, then you can relate to them.
Your situation may sometimes change. Job changes, health reasons, weather, and many more reasons are out there that affect your hard working and honest attempts at keeping the food on the table. That’s when you feel as if your “feeder has gone empty or a stupid cat of some kind has taken over your activities”.
Matthew 6:25-34 (NIV) Do Not Worry 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? 26 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? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Don’t worry. Easier said than done, right? Those bills need paying, right? But what the scripture is telling us here is that worrying doesn’t help one bit. It actually harms. It allows those doubt monsters to come in. It allows the”what ifs” to come between you and God. Things that can become even more harmful than the “cats” that cause problems in your life in the first place.
You are valuable to your Heavenly Father. Very valuable. It’s not because of who you are. It’s because of who HE is!
I enjoy the beauty of these birds. I’m in joy over the fact that God considers you and me valuable to Him.
See Ya! Dan Ainsworth wilderness preacher, bird whisperer
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