The Birds and Lilies Teach Me
Better by Alexander Smiley from The Hour of Silence 1899 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? Matthew chapter 6 verse 26 Let me not worry. The birds and
lilies teach me better. God spreads a table for the sparrows
and clothes the wayside anemones with their exquisite beauty.
And I am dearer to Him by far. I, who am made in His image,
and for whom His Son died, and whom He means to dwell with Him
in His heaven, I occupy a larger place in His heart of hearts.
Let me not worry. It serves no good purpose to
fret and worry. I cannot, with all my solicitude,
add a cubit either to my stature or to my age. Anxiousness will
only plunge me into mental distress and annoyance and sorrow without
bringing me any compensating advantage whatever. It knows
how to wound, but ah, it does not know how to heal. Let me
not worry. A child should have more confidence
in his father's wisdom and watchfulness and love. It may be excusable
for worldly men and women to worry. but not a son in the royal
and wealthy family of the King of Kings. There is no justification
for him if he goes worried and burdened during the day and lies
down to hours of sleeplessness at night. so do not worry for
the pagans run after all these things and your heavenly father
knows that you need them Matthew chapter 6 verse 31 and 32 you