Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?
Matthew 6:26 (CSB)
Yesterday Jesus said, don’t worry about food. Today He gives us a picture. Look at the birds.
Birds don’t plant seeds. They don’t bring in a harvest. They don’t fill up a barn for winter. And they still eat every day. Somebody feeds them.
And Jesus says who feeds them. “Your heavenly Father.” Not the birds’ Father. Ours. God made the birds, but He isn’t their Father. When we trust in Jesus, God becomes our Father. So if God feeds creatures who aren’t even in His family, He isn’t going to skip His own kids. That’s what “worth more” means. We matter more to Him than they do.
The birds aren’t lazy, though. They hunt for food all day long. God put the food out there, and they go get it. So Jesus isn’t telling us to stop working. He’s telling us to stop worrying while we work.
So when the food worry shows up, “how are we going to pay for groceries,” “what about next month,” we can do what Jesus said. Go outside and look at a bird. Then say it out loud: “My Father feeds that one, and I matter more to Him than a bird.”
God has already shown He will provide. He gave us Jesus. The Bible says that since God “did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all,” He will surely “also with him grant us everything” (Romans 8:32 CSB). A Father who has already given His Son isn’t going to forget to feed us.