The sparrow is such a common bird, and so small that we take little notice of it today, but God is not unmindful of it, as we shall learn from the words of the Lord Jesus. Sparrows are mentioned only six times in the Bible and on three different occasions. First, I want to see what the Lord said to His disciples.
So you see, God takes notice of every sparrow; how much more then those of us who belong to the Lord!
“Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?”
I am sure you boys and girls can work out a very simple sum in arithmetic. If two sparrows are sold for a farthing how many for two farthings? You will answer “Four.” But the Lord said:
“Are not five sparrows sold tor two farthings?”
I suppose the sparrow seller in the East used to give one sparrow extra for two farthings’ worth. It seems so cheap in man’s sight, but “not one of them is forgotten before God,”
Now in Psalm 102:77I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. (Psalm 102:7), as in many other parts of our Bible, we read of some of the sufferings of the Lord Jesus, and He says there, speaking through the writer of the Psalm;
“I watch, and any as a sparrow alone upon the house top.”
He was “despised and rejected of men,” and “looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but found none.” He even said when suffering on the cross,
“My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” Matt, 27:46.
This was on account of sin, for there the Lord bore God’s holy judgment against it, that sinners might be saved.
“Yea, the sparrow hath found an house,... even Thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.”
Who but the Lord Jesus has made the way open for every boy and girl to bring them near to God by His blood? It meant much to the Lord to be “alone” in the darkness of Calvary, that even you might be with Him soon in the Father’s house.
ML 04/20/1941