God Is To Be Trusted

The sentiments, in the cleverly written poem by Elizabeth Cheney, shared on yesterday’s offering, I found to be uncomfortably penetrating. Like many, I know the poem quite well, but for the first time, it has been so dagger-like in its submission. This is what I mean.

A robin, a bird that is not much bigger than a sparrow, is plying his observations of us humans, to a sparrow, one of the least significant birds. The sparrow is one of the least considered birds, in our eyes and one that is not worth much. In Matthew 10: 29a, the going price of a sparrow is half a penny. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Also in Luke’s Gospel though calculated differently, the going price for a sparrow is even less. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Luke 12: 6a. Yet this sparrow of whom Jesus says we are worth more than many of them, is looking at us humans, and seeing behaviour which has it totally confused.

Does this not get to you? Does it not make you take stock immediately, as it did to me? What behaviour, what attitude am I exhibiting before others, of God’s creation? The sparrow, who is of much less worth than we are, according to Jesus, exhibits the reliability, love, care and faith and trust in its Creator to the extent that worry, anxiety, fears, doubts and unbelief in their Creator is not seen in them. Yet, observation of the sparrow, concerning us humans and what we exhibit, leads the sparrow to this conclusion. The only reason why humans are living such worried and anxious lives, is I think, that it must be that they have no Heavenly Father, such as cares for you and me.

O what an indictment! O what a sad and miserable pronouncement, but O how utterly true. If we are honest with ourselves, we will confess before Father God, that too often, we act as though we have no Heavenly Father who is watching over us and taking full responsibility for us. Daily trials, tribulations, cares and frustrations come upon us and we quickly deny our Heavenly Father as One who is reliable and to be trusted. Instead, we rush headlong into worry anxiety, panic, self-pity, depressions and all that belong to the father of lies. 

We must change our ways. Learn from those lesser creatures, who have the same Heavenly Father as we do. May we lose all of the deceiver’s ways of darkness, to live under the words and promises of our Father, God.

But where is this taking us? We are going to take a look at God’s child, Joshua, and how in a time of fierce battle he trusts his Lord and Father and suffers no depression, anxieties, worry and stress.

For the remainder of the week, we shall discourse a pretty familiar incident involving Joshua and his enemies, with one aim. Our main aim is to surrender all problems and cares to our Father in Heaven, so that we can accept every promise of His to us, His children.