"Are not fiue sparrowes solde for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But euen the very haires of your head are all numbred: Feare not therefore, ye are of more value then many sparrowes."
Luke 12:6-7 - 1611 KJV
Imagine you work for a busy and very large grocery store, and you are the only one that is working there. You are in charge of maintaining the entire store now; all the stock, customer services and house-maintenance. You have lost your mind, there a customer spills something, there another has a question, every 10 minutes a product runs out of stock and customers are storming at the customer service desk complaining about it, now you must go in the back of the store looking over hundreds of pallets of stock to find that one product, you find it at the bottom of the pallet, you must remove all the product above it, it drops and spills all over the floor, you must clean it up, you take another of its kind out to fill it on the shelf... Another product is out of stock.
I think you get the point. If we were in charge of everything in a grocery store at once we would lose our minds, there is no way we could possibly even imagine doing that. What now if you had to be in charge of every single sparrow that ever existed, and made sure it existed as long as it was fore-planned to? That would be impossible... at least maintaining a grocery store all by yourself would make a little profit if it is not busy.
God is omnipotent, which means he has unlimited power, and all that He plans out to do will be done. God can manage 1,000,000,000 grocery stores all by Himself at once and then also take charge of all the sparrows. This is impossible for even the angels to fully comprehend. Now, how could a single being be able to take charge of all life at once, and even count all the single hairs upon every one our heads (Luke 12:7a)? How can a being so immutable hear the prayers of all men at a clap? How is this even possible? If God would waste His time counting all the sparrows and determining when they die, are not we then less important? Nay, man, but say to yourself for remembrance "Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows" (Luke 12:7b). These things are worth thinking about, but in reality we will never understand them, are we God's counselors? Are our thoughts His? (Romans 11:34). What then? Should we just sit back and forget it all because God has it all already under control? No... We shouldn't.
This is the great mystery of God, and His outstanding work, creation, screams His omnipotent power. This is why we shouldn't sit back and forget it, because God wants us to proclaim of His glorious power, and all that power is pointing to the Gospel. This amazing power of His is what so interests us as people, all of us deep inside wish we had all this much power, and frankly we would probably do anything to attain it if we were able to. If a man had half of the power an angel of the Lord has, people would be all over him, worshiping and praising him. Yet we tend to neglect our duties to profess our faith in Christ and to worship God who created us. This is how corrupt we are deep inside because of sin. But isn't it amazing that a God so powerful and omnipotent would make such a humbling way for us to be saved from the punishment we deserve? Christ, who was God manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16) paid it all on the Cross. Christ was crucified and shed His blood just for us. Why would such an unlimited God humble Himself down to worms like us? 1 Corinthians 1:18 says that "the preaching of the Cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." It is indeed foolish for those that perish to think that such wretched sinners as us would have favor in the sight of God on Christ's behalf. Do you ever look down on a filthy worm and love it unconditionally? That is exactly what God is doing when He loves us sinners, because He is perfectly Holy and in Him there isn't an ounce of darkness (1 John 1:5). We are filthy worms compared to Him but yet He loves us like a bride (Ephesians 5:25). This is that joy which so fills the hearts of us Christians, knowing that the all-powerful and omnipotent God that became human and suffered for us, His Church, suffered tremendously and gave us His very life on the cross. Choosing this path may be an easy "YES" for those who are His and those who have His spirit, but oh is it so hard to follow for those that prefer their sins, and oh, how few there be that enter therein (Matthew 7:13-14). Why should we then neglect our duties to worship Him? How much more can we repay Him that He has given us? Nay I say, nothing. We can pay nothing back to Him, save our faith, which is that thing God so lovingly rewards us with in Christ. This saving faith alone is what justifies, not by works lest we should boast (Ephesians 2:9), and it is Christ's imputed righteousness in us that God sees us fit for salvation (Philippians 3:9). This is that love God showed us on the Cross and continues to show us now, and is the reason us Christians should be rejoicing. Nothing can separate us from the love of God.
Today we live in a world that teaches to please yourself, and to live for yourself. We live in an age where personal satisfaction and greed for more money triumphs all other things. The elite of this world have enough money to feed every single human being in the world with abundance of food, and there is enough space for each individual existing to own at least a few acres of land. Yet our hearts seek it all, to take it all, to have it all. I am not speaking of all people here as if it is a complete fact that all your hearts desire all the wealth in the world, nay, some people understand the penalties of greed. However, I am assured that if any man here in this congregation including myself were to be granted enough power as to stand up to God's thrown; that is, if we were all-powerful and all-knowing, our sinful and greedy nature would make haste to fasten itself upon our conscience so that we become dangerous and fierce dictators. This is why socialism does not and will not work, for it is like a blind man leading another blind man into a ditch (Luke 6:39). The state, which is led by sinful and greedy men, cannot fix the state of other greedy men, trying to do so will hastily bring in a totalitarian government that will trample upon its citizens much like the Soviet Union did to the Russian people. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, had this chance of rule, God gave them charge over all creation. They however disobeyed God's only commandment not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This disobedience is what caused all humanity and creation forever to be completely depraved and dead to sin (Romans 5:12). We are dead to our sins at birth (Psalms 51:5, Colossians 2:13). This is the reason why God must quicken us while we are yet dead to sins (Ephesians 2:1-5), and to replace our stony hearts with hearts of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26), so that we can see and freely accept His gift of eternal life. Our free will and personal obedience before that we are born again by His will alone (John 1:13) have no contribution or subservience to our salvation whatsoever. But this is the reason we need God both in personal and in public life. The God who can and does change hearts, the God who says to care for those who are in need, and the God who came for the sick (Mark 2:17); it is this God that we urgently need in society and in our own lives. It is no wonder that God reminds us in Matthew chapter 6, instead of worrying about what we shall eat, and what we shall be clothed withal, that we ought to "seek [ye] first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things (water, cloths, food) shall be added unto you."
