Consider the ravens...

I don't particularly like little kids sometimes but , gosh darnit, they are so much wiser than us... just in their actions... 
A few weeks back a little girl at church had made a small gesture which made me think a lot. 
She was eating some bread and was throwing crumbs onto the floor... for her pure enjoyment! Her mom and I were standing by just discussing some news and when her mom had seen her throwing the crumbs on the floor, she asked her to kindly not do this. 
Out of my mouth came, "But she is feeding the birds for God." 
The little girl laughed and carried on and her mom, with thoughts going in her head as to how I came up with this, said to her little girl, "Carry on then."
Yes, I had said it, and had realised, but if it was not for her to do the deed of throwing the crumbs, I would never have thought of it. 


"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 important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?"
Matthew 6 vs 25-27


As the scripture states above, God cares for the birds... They don't know how they will eat that day but they land up getting fed! 
Such are we, wondering how we will get by each day and week and month... But God is our great provider and He will help us through!


The song below is what this scripture and this post are about. What an amazing song...

CONSIDER THE RAVENS

Dustin Kensrue of Thrice

I've got bills to pay

Taxman on my tail

Just keep prayin' that

the check's in the mail

There are times it seems 

when everything's lost

and I'm moaning, I'm tossed

and I see..

between the river and the ravens I'm fed

between oblivion and the blazes I'm led

So father give me faith, providence and grace

Between the river and ravens I'm fed

Sweet deliver, oh you lift up my head

and lead me in your way

I've grown sick and tired

of trying to stand still

I've learned to let the wind

pull me where it will

Throw myself into

the will of the wait

I can never be great 

'til we're free

between the river and the ravens I'm fed

between oblivion and the blazes I'm led

So father give me faith, providence and grace

Between the river and ravens I'm fed

Sweet deliver, oh you lift up my head

and lead me in your way

Although I'm walking through

the valley of the shadow of death

evils all around

It's coming from the right and the left

Trust that I will see

the glory above

Oh, your banner of love 

flies over me

between the river and the ravens I'm fed

between oblivion and the blazes I'm led

So father give me faith, providence and grace

Between the river and ravens I'm fed

Sweet deliver, oh you lift up my head

and lead me in your way