and so I will continue

On Monday evening I was writing about thinking as God thinks.
The passage that I quoted was in our Sunday bulletin a few weeks ago and I was intrigued.
It struck me as profound.

In the book of Matthew, Jesus asks a simple question....
"Why do you worry?"

Jesus says and I paraphrase...."The birds, the flowers, and the grass do not toil or spin, why do you?"

And then He tells us to
consider the lilies,
watch the birds and
gaze upon the grass of the field.

Consider means to think logically, to observe, to draw your deduction from.

If God takes such care to provide for these small things that are here today and gone tomorrow, how much more does he care about us?

He closes the verse with this stunning statement:

"O ye of little faith."

Faith, if you like, can be defined as this:
It is a man insisting upon thinking as God thinks
when everything seems determined to bludgeon and knock him down in an intellectual sense.

The trouble with the person of little faith is that,
instead of controlling his own thought,
his thought is being controlled by something else.
He goes round and round in circles.

That is the essence of worry.
That is not thought,
that is the absense of thought,
a failure to think. (Martin Lloyd-Jones gets the credit for this.)

"Consider the lilies......"