Rod Cooper, in a sermon titled, Worship or Worry, tells the following story of a man named
Rod:
“He
said that they raised pigs- about a thousand pigs a year. In one field they had
two or three hundred little oinkers running around. Every day, at four in the
morning, as he'd walk into the field to feed those guys, they'd scatter. Once a
little pig came up and began to chew on his foot, so he picked him up and began
to pet him. Soon the little pig wanted down.
Rod
said, "No, I'll let you down when I'm ready." At that moment, the
piglet let out a squeal such as he had never heard. In about two seconds,
thirty mama pigs weighing five to six hundred pounds each were headed his way.
He put the piglet down and headed for the fence. He barely made it over, and
all the mama pigs were snorting and walking back and forth, daring him to come
back over and bother one of their kids. Rob said that he looked back at that
and realize the little rascal wasn't intimidated. He was out of control, but he
wasn't intimidated. Why? Because one squeal away he had resources.”
Rod Cooper at this point in the
story asked this question, “If one of God's creatures is that sensitive
to the cry of its own, how much more sensitive is the heavenly Father to the
cry of his own? Just one squeal away we have resources.”
Jesus, Himself said that God feeds and cares for
the birds of the air. He then ask the question in Matthew 6:26, “Are you not much more valuable than they?” You
are more precious than you can ever imagine.
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