Dec.02.03: Light For The Day - "God Cares About You" -- Matthew 6:26 "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?" -------------- Consider the earth! Our globe's weight has been estimated at six sextillion tons (a six with twentyone zeroes). Yet it is precisely tilted at twenty-three degrees; any more or any less and our seasons would be lost in a melted polar flood. Though our globe revolves at the rate  of one-thousand miles per hour or twenty-five thousand miles per day or nine million miles per year, none of us tumbles into orbit.... As you stand ... observing God's workshop, let me pose a few questions. If he is able to place the stars in their sockets and suspend the sky like a curtain, do you think it is remotely possible that God is able to guide your life?  If your God is mighty enough to ignite the sun, could it be that He is mighty enough to light your path? If He cares enough about the planet Saturn to give it rings or Venus to make it sparkle, is there an outside chance that He cares enough about you to meet your needs? -- Max Lucado ------------- -- Matthew 6:26-34 (NIVUS) "26 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? 27 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of  the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor  was dressed like one of these. 30 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? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or  ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things,  and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness,  and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow,  for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own."