“Look at the birds of the air … Consider the lilies of the field …” (Matthew 6:26, 28). Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin”—they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars, and the moon—all of these simply are as well—yet what a ministry and service they render on our behalf! So often we impair God’s designed influence, which He desires to exhibit through us, because of our own conscious efforts to be consistent and useful. Jesus said there
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