One of my favorite things to do is to watch birds eat from bird feeders.
I know, odd thing to favor, right?
Sunday, Owen and I made a bird feeder from a juice bottle and hung it on our front porch...
I love to watch the birds hang out in the feeder and have a snack.
Birds always remind me of Matthew 6:26,
"Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?"
Matthew Henry's commentary on this portion of scripture says:
"Observe the providence of God concerning them. Look upon them, and receive instruction. There are various sorts of fowls; they are numerous, some of them ravenous, but they are all fed, and fed with food convenient for them; it is rare that any of them perish for want of food, even in winter, and there goes no little to feed them all the year round. The fowls, as they are least serviceable to man, so they are least within his care; men often feed upon them, but seldom feed them; yet they are fed, we know not how, and some of them fed best in the hardest weather; and it is your heavenly Father that feeds them;he knows all the wild fowls of the mountains, better than you know the tame ones at your own barn-door,
Ps. 50:11. Not a sparrow lights to the ground, to pick up a grain of corn, but by the providence of God, which extends itself to the meanest creatures. But that which is especially observed here is, that they are fed without any care or project of their own; they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gatherinto barns. The ant indeed does, and the bee, and they are set before us as examples of prudence and industry; but the fowls of the air do not; they make no provision for the future themselves, and yet every day, as duly as the day comes, provision is made for them, and theireyes wait on God, that great and good Housekeeper, who provides food for all flesh."
Isn't our God good!
We can trust and rest in the provision of the Lord in our lives.
The birds are always out and about eating.
Doing their part - receiving the provision.
As I sit here, journaling, reading, blogging, breathing in the crisp almost-Springtime air, I am blessed by the reminder that all things come from God. All things are given to me that pertain to life & godliness by the knowledge of Him. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of Lights, in whom there is no shadow or turning.
God is good all the time - and in all things - and in every season - and in every circumstance - always!
Today I am considering the birds of the air and the lilies of the field -
they just trust and wait and receive.
