Sadie
Farming On Faith is a little hobby farm ~we have a pond loaded with all kinds of neat critters, a dog, two cats, and 8 chickens. We have a garden, fruit trees, grapes and raspberries and 10 acres that we continue to fill. I have hopes of a green house and a huge orchard. Maybe even a small little bakery or business that serves lunch~ just praying about it.
We are planning in the days to come to add to our little homestead~oh My Brian and I have many ideas about what we will do with our little farm as the days go by. But for now I am just a chicken farmer ~tee hee. I don't have any roosters ( they tend to be mean) ~ but I do have the fattest ~plump laying hens you have ever seen.
Those plans could change with a phone call.
Ruby
Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
I heard a story is told of a man who raised chickens. (Since I started raising chickens I am kind of fond of chicken stories.) Well this chicken story has a rooster whose occasional crowing greatly annoyed a neighbor. Early one morning the unhappy neighbor called the farmer and complained, “That
miserable bird of yours keeps me up all night!”
“I don’t understand,” came the reply. “He hardly ever crows; but if he does, it’s never more than two or three times.”
“That isn’t my problem,” retorted the neighbor. “It’s not how often he crows that irritates me! What keeps me awake is not knowing when he might crow!”
I have to admit~ I can be just like that grumbly neighbor. I can worry myself into a disaster about a distressing situation or difficult circumstances that could happen tomorrow. This is just as silly as the neighbor waiting for the rooster to crow. Instead of rejoicing in the sufficiency of today~we become anxious and start borrowing sorrow for tomorrow.
When you think about the most difficult days that you have walked through ~what do you remember?
I remember just how God held me up and brought me safely through. In fact those times are the sweetest times I have had with my Lord. We don't have to borrow sorrow~when it does come knocking on our door or maybe I should say crowing loudly ~God will be there and He is sufficient to bring us through~this gives me great confidence that I don't have to worry and fret.
I remember just how God held me up and brought me safely through. In fact those times are the sweetest times I have had with my Lord. We don't have to borrow sorrow~when it does come knocking on our door or maybe I should say crowing loudly ~God will be there and He is sufficient to bring us through~this gives me great confidence that I don't have to worry and fret.
When I met Christ as my Saviour ~ I placed my life in His hands. He can be depended on~He be trusted~He's the guiding light in the middle of the darkest night. He's a friend indeed even when I'm not in need.
If you know Christ as your Saviour you can take these words to heart.
Matthew 6:25-34 (King James Version)
25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
When we choose to place our trust in Him~He will give us rest for our souls ~and the peace of God will fill our minds.
We can stop foolishly waiting for the rooster to crow!
Why worry? Are tomorrow's skies more blue
If on our beds we restless roll and toss
With burning, sleepless eyes until the morn,
Just building bridges we may never cross? —Anon.
With burning, sleepless eyes until the morn,
Just building bridges we may never cross? —Anon.
Worrying is paying interest on troubles that may never come due!
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