Let me set the scene for you: me and my bestie gal, Taylor are on a 4 mile hike to summit a 16,500 foot mountain in the middle of the Andes mountains in Peru. We’re in a valley surrounded by mountains that are over 20,000 feet in elevation and covered in snow. As we look to the right and to the left, up every hill we see llamas grazing in the grass—and then the Lord spoke.
Quit worrying about your life. Look at the llamas, they have all they need in Me.
As I marveled at the snow capped mountaintops and llamas grazing on the hillsides that surrounded me over the past week, I couldn’t help but think of Matthew 6:25-34 and Luke 12:22-34:
“And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouses nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
—Luke 12:22-28 ESV (emphasis mine)
Jesus basically tells us to quit worrying about our lives because if you look at His creation—the birds, the lilies of the field…and in my case, the llamas—they don’t do ANYTHING to provide for themselves. The birds and lilies grow and the mountains stand glorious simply because God made them that way.
Nothing else.
May we consider the lilies more often in our lives. May we stand in awe and be utterly amazed at the magnitude of our God. Because in Him we have absolutely everything we could ask for and more.
Behold, the glory of God.
