Trees were being trimmed on the streets of a certain city. Coming to one tree a worker noticed a bird’s nest with several newly hatched birds. Not having the heart to disturb the lib, the workman obtained permission from the foreman to trim it off at a later time. He returned after a few weeks to trim the tree and found the nest deserted. Looking more closely he found at the bottom of the nest a small Sunday School text card bearing the words, “He careth for you.”
“God cares.” Yes, He cares for the sparrow but He cares more for you, because you are of more value than many sparrows. You mean something to God that a sparrow can never mean.
The words may be translated, “God is interested in you.” Though He is the Creator of a million words, He is a personal Friend of yours. And He is interested in everything you are interested in—in everything that affects His plan for your life.
But your interest too often tend to become your anxieties. And God does not want you to live anxiously. He who lives anxiously reveals two things: (1) he sets too much value on temporal things, and (2) he is lacking in the faith that “all these things shall be added unto you.”
Can we reverently put it this way? Let God take over the “worries” of your life. He wants to. Deliberately refuse to live in anxious concern—“throw every anxiety upon Him and leave it there!” The original indicates that this commitment to God in a given matter should be a once-for-all act. Then live on without the care!
--George E. Failing
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