I found a dead bird in my driveway this morning. Jesus tells us in Matthew 10 that something as small as a sparrow dying will not escape the notice of his Father. So apparently God was looking in my direction at some point last night or today watching this little thing expire.
The tie-in between this scripture and that little bird expiring on my lawn didn’t hit me until later. If God really bird watches then He was paying attention to something going on at my house this morning. Now the point of the scripture is that OF COURSE He’s paying attention to the stuff that goes on at my house because He even pays attention to little things like when birds are born and die. It was still sobering to think that one of Jesus’ illustrations had occurred right here.
In the New International Version of the Bible Jesus’ actual words were that not a single sparrow would “fall to the ground” apart from God’s notice. I’m somewhat complicit here because the dead bird had come to rest on my van and didn’t actually “fall to the ground” until I had chucked it there. The fact that I had played a role makes the feeling of this bible-in-my-life event more poignant. It’s obvious that anyone watching the disposition of that sparrow was watching me.