consider the birds of the air

Consider the birds of the air (Matthew 6:25-33) I came across these words as I was surfing the net as part of a sermon someone had preached on this text. I have simply copied them in a non-prose format. I think they speak quite poetically The picture is another of my Oil pastel drawings.

"Look at the birds of the air;

they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns,

and yet your heavenly Father feeds them….

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;

they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you,

even Solomon in all his glory

was not clothed like one of these.”

“Look at the birds of the air,” he says.

Playful, free birds, full of song, quick to move,

colourful cardinals and goldfinches.

“Consider the lilies of the field, clothed in glory,” he says.

Fresh, vibrant lilies, waving on slender stems

as the breeze moves among them.

Like the birds of the air,

like the lilies of the field,

you are created and loved by God.

Like the birds of the air,

like the lilies of the field,

you are provided for.

Let go of the anxiousness,

let go of fearful grasping,

let go and breathe.

God knows your deepest needs.

(Diane Blanchard)

Now that's what John Stott calls 'Orna-theology'