Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Matthew 6:26, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Matthew 10:29
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
- Psalms 147:9
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
- Job 38:41
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
- Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than theā¦
- Psalms 145:15
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
- Psalms 104:27
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
- Luke 12:6
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
- Matthew 6:32
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.