The Father’s Care for His Children
But the Saviour is not done yet. In Matt. 10:29 he says: "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father." Four farthings make an English penny, but that is two cents of our money. Two farthings therefore would equal one cent, and one farthing equals one-half a cent. Two sparrows therefore being sold for half a cent, the value of one sparrow would be but the half of half a cent, or one-quarter of a cent. One sparrow, of the value of only a quarter of a cent, "shall not fall on the ground without your Father. . . . Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." What our Saviour would have us understand, is that nothing of as much importance as a quarter of a cent, can befall the child of God without the Father's notice; that his care for his children is so great as this. Yet this is not expressive enough. Jesus goes a step further, as far as he can in human language: "But the very hairs of your head are all numbered." Nothing, therefore, of as much importance as a single hair can come upon a child of God without the Father's notice. Taking these four illustrations together, it would seem that the Saviour tried to draw out our minds to grasp the greatness of the Father's care for us, and that human language cannot express it.