"THE BIRDS OF THE AIR!"

Matthew 6:25-27                        (ESV)

"25 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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?

27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?"

My wife and I vacationed at a condominium on the Gulf of Mexico recently.  It was during the "off-peak" season, so the condominium wasn't as full of guest as it might usually have been.  One morning, while sitting in my chair on the beach, I was listening to the birds of some sort chirp.  There were a limited amount of people on the beach and I was left to wonder who the birds were chirping at?  

Then it hit me like a wet towel, they were singing and praising their Creator in Heaven!  They didn't have to have a church building, an ornate facility filled with starched clothes and hard hearts.  They were just birds of the air, under attack from no one or no thing, singing to GOD above, simply because HE is GOD!

Shouldn't we be doing the same?  Our Creator made us to praise and worship HIS name!  While it is true, we are under constant attack by the enemy, he was defeated at Calvary by GOD/MAN JESUS, so we have NO reason for "anxiety"!  

Could it be that WE WANT to have a say in how our lives "turn out"?  In doing so, we scrimp and save our monies to buy a bigger house, a newer automobile, or more fashionable clothing?  We buy foods WE WANT to eat, not that will sustain us.  It seems our focus is on how we can make "this world" more comfortable for a few short years, then we develop some disease that gobbles up our savings trying to make us healthy again.  WE WANT to be healthy, wealthy, and wise instead of glorifying the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS!!!

"THE BIRDS OF THE AIR" usually live outside in what GOD provides them!  Most of then aren't sick and diseased, as they don't put man made toxins in their bodies like some humans do.  "THE BIRDS OF THE AIR" don't have cares or worries.  They simply offer praise to their Creator......because HE Created them!  Forgive me, dear FATHER, for watching my checking account balance more than YOUR blessings!  If YOU feed and care for "THE BIRDS OF THE AIR", surely YOU have a Plan for my life!!!