Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind

The past few weeks I've been watching a Mama Robin care first for four little blue eggs in a nest in our front bush, and now I get to watch her (and Mr. Robin on occasion) feeding the hatched baby robins worms throughout the day. The babies are scrawny and a little scary looking when they stretch out their necks to eat, but I'm looking forward to (Lord willing) watching them fill out and learn to fly. This bush backs up to our front window so luckily I get to spy quietly from inside our house.

This has got me thinking about a few things, God's good creation and His providential care. Bram has been listening to some free music (Iink below) from the Songs for Saplings series. One of the tracks, Let The Waters, is a simple song about the fifth day of creation recorded in Genesis 1:20-21 and the lyrics are as follows: "Let the waters swarm with fish, and let the skies be filled with birds of every kind. God saw it was good, good, good; the fifth day was good. God saw what He made on the fifth day and it was good." I especially love that the song focuses on God's creative power making the fish and birds as being good, and not on the fish and birds in themselves. We serve the Creator, not the creature, and the creatures testify to His life-giving, creative, and powerful nature! HE is good and His works are wonderful.

I've also been thinking about Jesus' commands to His followers in Matthew 6:26 not to worry, but to trust the Father because His posture toward believers is as a loving Father whose nature is to provide for His children "Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap not gather into barns and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you of more value than they?".

Here's the link to download a free! sample album of songs from each volume of the Songs for Saplings CDs. Bram after listening just a few times, learned the answer to one of the questions based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism, "Who made you?". Bram says "Gah may me!" (God made me). 

Download here: http://music.songsforsaplings.com/album/free-songs-for-sampling