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OF MORE VALUE 2

TEXT : Matthew 6:26 ISV 


 *Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren’t you?* 


God uses nature to explain His mind to us. Here, He wants us to consider the birds of the sky. As a living thing, they need food to survive, though they don't plant nor harvest, yet your heavenly Father feeds them.


Note that God was not referred to as a father to birds, *God is the creator of all things, but He is only a Father to humans not any other created things.* Yet, He feeds the birds.

If your father can provide for a bird, how much more you that are created in His image.


Now, don't get the impression that God wants you to live like the birds which neither plants nor harvests yet are being fed. God will not in anyway advocate laziness. As a matter of fact, He says in His word that he that will not work should not eat. 2 Thessalonians 3:10.


From the very beginning, He(God) gave a work of tending the garden to Adam,  this suggests that God doesn't wants us to be idle, doing nothing. However,  God never created man for survival. The survival instincts in man came as a result of the fall of man. 


Originally, man was created to give God pleasure. Revelation 4:11.

 *Whatever it is you are doing in the name of making ends meet that doesn't give pleasure to God is a ploy by the devil to take you away from God eternally.* 


The devil is a liar and a father of lies. He lied to man that man must hustle in order to make it in life. This hustling is the reason man engages in all kinds of shady deals just to proof a point. 


In other parlance, hustling is seen as survival. It is seen as a legitimate way of worrying for daily necessities of life. Whichever way, God does not want his children to hustle but only to trust in Him as they embark on any task or endeavour.


Jesus did not deny the fact that man needs the necessary things of life. He said: So don’t ever worry by saying, ‘what are we going to eat?’ or ‘what are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are we going to wear?’ because it is the unbelievers who are eager for all those things. Surely your heavenly Father knows that you need all of them! Matthew 6:31-32.


Your Father (The owner of heaven and earth) knows all of your needs and He cares enough for you to make provision available. 


When you consider how your Father cares for valueless things like flower, Sparrow,  birds, tress and stuffs like that, it should make you rejoice knowing that you are of more value to Him than they all.


 *BIBLE READING* : 


Matthew 6:19-34.


 *PRAYER FOCUS* 


1. Father, help me to trust in your love for me knowing that you care for me more than I could imagine. 



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