(Winslow, "The God of Bethel")
Look at that flower!
It toils not, it spins not; and why?
Because your Heavenly Father clothes it.
Look at that bird!
Leaping from bow to bow, springing from hill
to valley, sparkling with beauty, gushing with
song, and wild with ecstatic delight! It has
not a thought or care of its own; and why?
Because God thinks and cares for it.
Oh, you of little faith!
Why do you hesitate...
to trust all your personal interests,
to confide all your wordly affairs,
to disclose all your temporal needs
and sorrows in prayer to
God?
He is not too high for your lowest need,
nor too great for your smallest care.
"If the buzzing of a fly troubles
me,"
says John Newton, "I may take it to God."
This is not mere sentiment.
It is the practical embodiment of a principle of
experimental religion most honoring to God and
sanctifying to us; the principle of faith, which...
acknowledges God in all our ways,
sees God in everything, and
takes everything, the smallest, to God.