“Have you ever seen a worried bird? One who had deep wrinkles in his brow? Perhaps his eyes were bleary and bloodshot with circles underneath from many sleepless nights? Somehow you knew he had been trying to keep a stiff upper beak as he worried over how he would pay the mortgage on his nest!
Jesus was the One who used birds as an example of the way we should face the subject of finances. He said in Matthew 6:26:
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
No, you haven’t seen a worried bird! We can learn from the birds the secret of living like this. Jesus told us we were not to be anxious for what we would eat or drink or for the clothes we needed. In fact, He said our lives should be different from those of unbelievers who run after these things. We are to be as carefree as the birds of the air.
Is this true of most of the Christians you know? Is this true of you?”
Loren Cunningham in Daring to Live on the Edge: The Adventure of Faith and Finances (Seattle: YWAM Publishing, 1991) 19-20.