What Child is This?

"Why lies He in such mean estate

Where ox and ass are feeding

Good Christians, fear, for sinners here

The silent Word is pleading

Nails, spear shall pierce Him through,

The cross He borne for me, for you

Hail, hail! The Word made flesh

The Babe, the Son of Mary"

Amazing words we do not often hear!

Let it sink in!

Look at the birds...

God has been implanting this into my heart. I want it to become a part of my foundation...
I worry about money, but He says don't worry.
He say's the mind set on the Spirit is PEACE. It really is true that if we would make it our goal to set our minds on the things ABOVE we would stay at peace.

Matthew 6:26 says

"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"

I feel like God is challenging where my reliance and trust is placed.

I want to place it fully in him. Not on my "sowing" (working), my "reaping" (paycheck) or storing away in barns (savings).

...Not in what I can do alone, everything comes from Him anyway!

The birds don't work and strive and worry about what they get, but God is a LOVING father (loving toward all He has made!) and He GIVES to them, not because of their actions meriting reward, but because HE is faithful and He cares.

Ah, so it is with me, so it is with me.

Let this sink deeper and deeper.