Taken from Joy and Strength devotion @ Back to the Bible
Bible Passage Matthew 6:25-34
WAS in the act of kneeling down before the Lord my God,
when a little bird came and perched near my window, and thus preached to me:
“O thou grave man, look on me, and learn something,
if not the deepest lesson, then a true one.
Thy God made me, and the like of me;
and, if thou canst conceive it,
loves me and cares for me.
Thou studiest Him in great problems,
which oppress and confound thee:
thou losest sight of one half of His ways.
Learn to see thy God not in great mysteries only, but in me also.
His burden on me is light,
His yoke on me is easy;
but thou makest burdens and yokes for thyself which are very grievous to be borne.
Things deep as Hell and high as Heaven thou considerest overmuch;
but thou dost not ‘consider the lilies’ sufficiently.
lf thou couldst be as a lily before God,
for at least one hour in the twenty-four,
it would do thee good:
I mean, if thou couldst cease to will and to think, and be only.
Consider, the lily is as really from God as thou art,
and is a figure of something in Him–the like of which should also be in thee.
Thou longest to grow, but the lily grows without longing;
yes, without even thinking or willing,
grows and is beautiful both to God and man.”
JOHN PULSFORD

Matthew 6
26Behold 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?
27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28And why take ye thought for raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: