The Birds Fed by Your Heavenly Father Matthew 6:26

Matthew shared how Jesus told His disciples, “You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?”, and in chapter six and verse twenty-six of his book, Matthew shared how Jesus told His disciples to, “behold the fowls of the air” where we read:

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?

The verse reads, “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns;” Matthew began with the word, “behold” which means “to turn one's eye on, look at and consider with the mind” “the fowls” or “the flying winged birds flying” “of the air” which means “pertaining to the vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it”: “for they” or “because, since and on account that the birds” “sow not” which means “do not scatter seed”, “neither do they reap” or “nor, not and in no way do the birds harvest or cut down crops with a sickle”, “nor gather” which means “nor draw together, collect or assemble the crops” “into barns” or “into storehouses, granaries or places in which anything is laid by or up”. Jesus told His disciples to “look at the birds” and consider them because they do not “scatter seed” or “harvest” crops and “collect” them into “storehouses”.

The verse goes on to say, “yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not much better than they?” Matthew added the words, “yet” or “still, even so, indeed and also” “your heavenly Father” which means “the disciples' generator and originator who is God in the celestial region” “feeds them” or “nourishes, supports, gives suck and fattens the birds”. “are you not” which means “are the disciples not” “much better” or “to a greater decree, more willingly, more readily and sooner” “than they” which means “than the birds”? Jesus shared how God the “Heavenly Father” provides for the “birds of the air”, and He questioned his disciples as to whether they knew their value was greater than “birds”.

When we consider Matthew's words in this verse, we see how Jesus employed the example of “birds” in the sky to demonstrate how God the “Heavenly Father” cares for them. God feeds the “birds” even though they don't “plant, harvest or store” any food, and because He does, would He not care for His “disciples” and their needs? God cares for people, and His desire is not only to provide for them “physically” but also “spiritually” through a relationship with His Son Jesus, and when a person believes and trusts in Jesus as their personal “Savior and Lord”, they are under God's oversight for every need they shall ever have.

Next time Jesus asks His disciples, “which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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