“That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith? “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.”
You see the hummingbird is not worried about how and what it will eat as provision was made prior to growing season. Remember, I purposely planted seeds specifically to attract and feed him. And although the tree he loves did not look promising, it did not stop him, he continued to enjoy the “current” harvest and because I won that battle with the fungus in a few days that “diseased tree” he loves will be blooming and he will be able to enjoy the “latter harvest”. Can you imagine how excited that hummingbird will feel when he sees that bright red bloom? Sheer joy! So I ask if God can provide for a creature as simple and small as the hummingbird of the sky, what will he do for his most highest and prized creation?
What I learned from observing this hummingbird is that we first must be faithful, be thankful and be diligent in the harvest he has already blessed us with and secondly, we should never give up on the harvest we have yet to reap. It may seem at times as though those seeds that we have planted may be dying or barren and will never produce a harvest such as my hibiscus tree. But we cannot lose faith and grow weary. We have be confidant in the word that God will give us everything we need. After all he is the almighty and all-knowing God who is able to deliver, heal and set us free; he possesses the power to restore and heal our “diseased tree”. We just have faith to believe with the same level of determination and patience as that hummingbird, that we can never stop “hovering with expectation” as we will reap our harvest in “God’s Due Season” if we faint not!
Psalm 104:27.
“[all creatures] look to you to give them their food in due season; you open wide your hand and satisfy the needs of every living creature.”