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In this text and the following ones telling us to consider the lilies of the field.  We see that the Lord is teaching us to spend some time in looking at the creation around us, with a bit more thought and consideration, and see how the heavenly Father preserves it and finds it, without those beings having to worry or fret or store up. He uses this as an example to teach us to have faith, also that as He feeds and preserves the lesser things in His creation that pass away, how much more will He feed and preserve us, the crown of His creation which is promised to go on to eternity.

When considering the birds of the air, I am reminded of an article which surveyed the number of birds in a certain city park, in a large city in the U.S.A., and an estimate of their daily consumption of food. It amounted to tons and tons per day, and we tend to overlook this. If we consider the amount of food consumed by all birds throughout the world, it is mind boggling, but yet Christ pointed us to this fact to show that our Heavenly Father provides this, day in, and day out, for them because of his love to creation. We do see cases where man interferes and deludes birds and animals of their natural supply of food, and often these things then have to turn to the crops of man to sustain themselves. Man then calls them pests, but to them they see it as daily food provided by the Creator.

We do see natural disasters such as droughts etc., take their toll as food disappears, but it is interesting to read reports being done by researchers into the animal (both wild and commercial) and bird population, that following a major drought, there is a greater percentage of female young born. We see how our Heavenly Father uses this to again build up the numbers. With trees and vegetation when we look closely, we see how the Creator regulates and feeds them sufficiently, so that they always show forth the majesty of creation. If we take time to look at an established Eucalyptus Forest, we will observe that each year or season, the trees flower and drop seed, but usually that seed does not germinate, lest too many trees will spring up and choke out the main tree: however, when the main tree is poisoned, ring-barked, struck by lightning, or fire, or begins to die out, amazingly some of the seeds dropped, germinate, so as to provide a replacement.

How often we’ve seen cleared land used for farming for many years, abandoned, and after a few years, vegetation takes it over. All of these things, as we consider them, should lead us more and more to think of our text. Now Christ was not implying that we all just sit around and wait for God’s blessings to come to us, no, we must remember the penalty brought to mankind by the sin of Adam, Gen. 3:19, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground,” but rather He was telling us we should not become worried what we shall eat and how shall we be clothed, to the extent that if we are not careful, these things become our God’s. He reminds us that our Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things and tells us how we should go about these things in verse 33. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness: and all these things shall be added unto you.” According to the Bible, the Kingdom of God is Christ, and if we seek Him and His righteousness (Grace), and His ways, and His teachings, firstly in our lives, all the rest of our blessings from our Heavenly Father, will flow on us more abundantly as we see flowing on His creation.