Sometimes, I will randomly have song lyrics playing in my mind. Today was no exception, and I often tell people that I have a song for everything. I really do, though, it’s weird haha. I just love music and all the potential it holds!
I was just sitting outside sun bathing (gotta get that vitamin D haha) and reading, when I just started singing the song I’ve shared at the end of this post. I love my Truth Time where I just really focus on God and all that He’s done in my life. Actually, I just remembered what prompted me to start singing this song… Haha. I have an affinity with nature and I was watching a bird perched up where we had a bird feeder hanging, when he took off. It reminded me of where, in Matthew 6, we are commanded not to worry.
Here is Matthew 6:25-34:
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 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? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6 has spoken to me so many times throughout the past almost 18 (August 6!) months of this aneurysm journey. Earlier today, I found myself thinking “if God takes care of the birds, He will surely continue to take care of me.” It’s such a simple revelation, but definitely impacted my day. I love little epiphanies like that, because they’re always another reminder of how much I’ve truly changed since beginning my “real-lationship” with God. If I sat outside and happened to see a bird before any of this, it wouldn’t register a single thought in my mind haha. But for me to think of Matthew 6 because of this bird, it just shows a heart change. I love it. :) It’s so easy to worry, and so difficult to trust, honestly. This song just reminds me to keep holding on and keep trusting in Him. You have to fight fear with faith.
Here’s the song, and I chose a lyrics video so you can read the words as he sings them!
Hope that you’re doing (and feeling) well, wherever you are! As always, keep the faith, keep the fight! :)
Faith, by fire. 