{"id":2569,"date":"2013-04-18T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T18:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godonomics\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2013-03-29T14:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:52:22","slug":"safari-the-sparrows-know-how-not-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godonomics\/2013\/04\/safari-the-sparrows-know-how-not-to-worry.html","title":{"rendered":"Safari: The Sparrows Know How Not to Worry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had a giant python at our church for our safari series. \u00a0We were learning lessons God had for those who looked for Him in His creation.<\/p>\n

Sparrows Know God Watches Over Them.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Matthew 6: 24 \u201cNo one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 \u201cTherefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. \u00a0Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?<\/span><\/p>\n

God has placed incredible care and concern over the animals… \u00a0\u00a0God knows if even one sparrow falls to the ground. \u00a0God attends the funerals of birds. \u00a0Jesus tells us that our biggest issues with worry, are actually a lack of knowing what the birds know… They know God watches over them.<\/p>\n

Now, you may not even know if you believe God made the world. \u00a0Years of Evolutionary teaching in college or medical school may have taught you that God didn\u2019t take care of the origins, let alone the present. \u00a0\u00a0Dr Jobe Martin felt that way. \u00a0He was a biology major, and Dentist who got out of the air force and even worked aboard \u00a0Air Force where he was the dentist for the Presidential flight crew of Air Force One, he established a private dental practice at NASA in Houston. \u00a0\u00a0He began his scientific career as a dentist, and a believer in Darwinian evolution, as he had been taught in numerous courses in high school, undergraduate school, and dental school. \u00a0Some of his Christian students at the Baylor College of Dentistry challenged him to prove to them that evolution was a correct, complete and accurate explanation for the origin of the earth and all of its abundance of unique life forms. \u00a0As he began to relook at the evidence and question this assumption, he began to see many things that challenged his belief that God was not necessary for life (then and now)<\/p>\n

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