Day 6: Your Father's Care
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care (Matthew 10:29).
The chestnut sparrow is the smallest of all sparrows, and is among the smallest birds in the world. It grows to a mere 4.3 in. (11cm) long and weighs less than half an ounce (13.4 grams). Yet Jesus, on more than one occasion used sparrows—including these tiny species—to illustrate the Father's care.
Over and over He made the point: if the Father watches over these tiny, commonplace birds, how much more does He watch over us!
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 6:26).
You are of more value than many sparrows (Luke 12:7 - NKJV).
I trust in God wherever I may be,
Upon the land, or on the rolling sea,
For come what may, from day to day,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
Refrain:
I trust in God, I know He cares for me;
On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea;
Though billows roll, He keeps my soul;
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
He makes the rose an object of His care,
He guides the eagle through the pathless air,
And surely He remembers me;
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
I trust in God, for, in the lion’s den,
On battlefield, or in the prison pen,
Through praise or blame, through flood or flame,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
The valley may be dark, the shadows deep,
But, oh, the Shepherd guards His lonely sheep;
And through the gloom He’ll lead me home,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
~ William C. Martin ~ pub. 1910
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