Pulling out of the driveway tonight I saw something very strange. I hadn't seen anything like it before, but it looked like a mouse or a tiny gremlin just sitting in the middle of the driveway. Many leaves have been falling, so I tried to think of it as a leaf, but I couldn't. So Lora Beth and I got out to examine it, and stooping down to investigate, to my shock I found a sparrow stuck head down in a small hole chipped a couple inches deep in the asphalt. Better yet, we could see that its little body was heaving and that it was still alive!
I gave its tail feathers a gentle tug pulling it out of the hole, and rested its body on the ground. A small worm was hanging out of its mouth, but it seemed unscathed and unbroken. I attempted to pick it up, but it flew a few feet into the grass, and quicker than I expected, the sparrow took flight into the woods behind the house. Within a minute's time, the whole incident had started and ended. Lora Beth looked up at me with wonder in her face, and I knew I couldn't waste the moment.
Back in the van I asked the kids what the Bible said about sparrows. One of them shouted out, "That we're more important than sparrows!" And oh, how right that is!
In Matthew 6:26, Jesus is quoted saying, "Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?"
And again He says in Luke 12:6-7, "Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows."
I told the kids that if God looks after the sparrows, and this one in particular and sent us to help it, how much more does He think of us. He loves us and values us more than that "many sparrows", and yet we had compassion on just one. Praise the Creator who cares about people, giving hope and shining light where we might not have thought it was possible. Yes, He cared about that one little bird, but He cares about us more.
I gave its tail feathers a gentle tug pulling it out of the hole, and rested its body on the ground. A small worm was hanging out of its mouth, but it seemed unscathed and unbroken. I attempted to pick it up, but it flew a few feet into the grass, and quicker than I expected, the sparrow took flight into the woods behind the house. Within a minute's time, the whole incident had started and ended. Lora Beth looked up at me with wonder in her face, and I knew I couldn't waste the moment.
Back in the van I asked the kids what the Bible said about sparrows. One of them shouted out, "That we're more important than sparrows!" And oh, how right that is!
In Matthew 6:26, Jesus is quoted saying, "Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?"
And again He says in Luke 12:6-7, "Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows."
I told the kids that if God looks after the sparrows, and this one in particular and sent us to help it, how much more does He think of us. He loves us and values us more than that "many sparrows", and yet we had compassion on just one. Praise the Creator who cares about people, giving hope and shining light where we might not have thought it was possible. Yes, He cared about that one little bird, but He cares about us more.
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