His Eye is On The Sparrow

 A couple months back, while waiting in an airport during a long layover, my sister and I noticed these cute little sparrows flying around inside the terminal, chirping and eating crumbs here and there. I don't know how they managed to get inside the airport, but they certainly helped keep me from being bored during the long wait! :) As I watched them, it brought my mind to the verses in God's Word that talk about the sparrows, and I couldn't help but once again thank Him for His care over me, and for sending some of His little creatures as reminders!

  But even the very hairs of your head are all 

numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more 

value than many sparrows. Luke 12:7

Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,

Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heav’n and home,

When Jesus is my portion? My constant Friend is He:

His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;

His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me. 

 

“Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;
Though by the path He leadeth, but one step I may see;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.

Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.

Refrain: 

I sing because I’m happy, I sing because I’m free,

For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.

 

by Civilla D. Martin, 1905

 

  Matthew 6:26   Behold 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?