More valuable than grass
If your lawn looks anything like ours at the moment, it’s pretty brown and dry and badly needs some rain! Yet when it does get that water, the grass is often able to recover so well, and become green again. Hasn’t God made this very common, tiny, plant so beautiful?
“If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?” (Matthew 6:30)
On Sunday morning, we heard about the loving care of our Father in heaven. The God who created the world, the birds, lilies and grass, and you and me – he gave his only Son Jesus through whom we can be adopted into God’s family. What a love, what a care indeed, for undeserving sinners such as us.
Jesus argues from the lesser to the greater in Matthew 6:25-34, pointing us to God’s care for the smaller things in creation, even the grass that so quickly withers, to make us see how we can trust God to care for us too. “Therefore, do not worry,” for you are so much more valuable than birds or grass; and our Father knows our every need. And he’s promised to care for us.
Therefore, as Peter says: “Cast all your anxiety [all your cares] on him because he cares for you.” We can leave all the uncertainties and hardships that we face in his hands. Throw them off, cast away that heavy burden of trying to fix what only God can do; trying to sort out the future when we don’t even know what tomorrow brings. God knows. God cares. And he’s your Father because of Jesus.
Klaas-Jan Gunnink