Do You Have The Faith of Birds?

Verses:  Matthew 6:25-34

My thoughts about the verses:

You might think this is a funny question to ask.  What do you mean do I have the faith of a bird?  How can this be an important part of studying the word of God?

Let us look at it this way birds do not worry.  They know God will provide what they need to survive.  God has given the ability of flight to travel to go to where food is.  God has given them the ability to blend in to the environment.  God has given them the water they need to survive.  God has given them the knowledge of how to build places of shelter.

Birds do not stress out about survival.  Even though they live a lot of their life flying to new food sources and new places to build nest they know God will provide the way.  It is amazing to think that there are a lot of things birds have to fear yet they do not fear the necessities of life.

Do we have those fears?  Many of us live our life in a mind of poverty.  We do not believe that God will provide our simple needs.  We spend a lot of time trying to meet those needs.  Yet, we do not put our faith in God. 

We have to come to the understanding that God will provide our needs.  What we must do is give ourselves truly to God.  When we give our life to God we will not have to worry that God will not provide our needs.

Honestly all of us at one point have fallen into that state of fear.  We try not to but we begin worrying so much that we step away from the sheltering arms of God.  We try to solve our problems on our own.  We struggle because our faith in God is faltering.  We all start fearing our needs will not be met at one point of time.  We do have a way of reclaiming the gift of God’s provisions for our life.

When we go into deep prayer and submission of our life to God we are able to overcome our fear.  We learn that God wants us to have a successful happy life.  It is up to us to stay in fear or to humbly turn our lives over to God.  When you choose to give your life fully over to God you will soon realize that you will have your needs met and will be happier than you have ever been in your life.                                                                                                                                                          

Prayer:

God we thank you for giving us all our needs.  We thank you Jesus for giving us the gift of everlasting life.  We thank you for loving us even when we stray.  Help us to live a life of faith.  Help us live like the birds and flowers knowing without fear that you will provide all our needs.  Help us overcome the poverty mind set.  In the name of the Giver of Life we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Do you have the faith of a bird?  Do you know God will provide all your needs if you only trust God?  Are you ready today to stop worrying about things of this world and focus wholly on God?