“‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Cany any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life'”

“‘And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 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, you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.'” (Matthew 6: 25-32)

You know what makes me feel small and puny? It’s the vastness of creation, when I gaze at an ocean, fly over polar ice caps, or survey a night sky that is sparkling with a billion stars. If the created universe is so expansive, how much greater must be the Creator who spoke it all into being!

God’s greatness and our feelings of insignificance are echoed by David when he declares, “What are mere mortals that  You should think about them, human beings that You should care for them?” (Psalm 8:4). But Jesus assures us, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

I may feel small and insignificant, but through my Father’s eyes, I have great worth, a worth that is proven every time I look at the cross. The price He was willing to pay to restore me to fellowship with Him is evidence of just how much He values me and you!