Our Heavenly Father’s Care

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 2, 1908

Our Heavenly Father’s Care

A SINGLE word in the Scriptures often carries a large meaning with it. Jesus said, “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?” It is “your Heavenly Father,” not their Heavenly Father, who feeds them. The fowls of the air have a Creator, but not a Father in any such sense as we have who are children of God through faith in Christ, and yet our Father’s care extends even to them, so that he opens his hand and they are filled with good. Will not he who thus provides for the needs of the lesser remember also the greater, his own children? It is in view of such providential care that Jesus further said: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

“Thy bountiful care, what tongue can recite?” It breathes in the air, it shines in the light; It streams from the hills, it descends to the plain, And sweetly distils in the dew and the rain.

“Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail, In thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail; Thy mercies, how tender! how firm to the end! Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!”