Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today's Reading: Matthew 6:24-34 Daily Lectionary: Nehemiah 4:7-23; 1 Timothy 3:1-16 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 6:26) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. How do you know that God will take care of you? Look at your car windshield. See? He's feeding the birds! They've got food! So He'll take care of you, too. Birds have food. Lilies look like they're dressed beautifully. They are just birds and flowers! You are worth way more to your heavenly Father than those things! That's because the Son of God didn't become a bird or a lily. He became man. A human being. One of us. Like you. He did that so He could take your sin and death and make them His own to rescue you from those things forever. If God did not spare His own Son but gave Him up to the death of the Cross, don't you think He'll make sure you have enough to eat and something to wear? Of course He will. In fact, Jesus is