Wood frogs have a special ability to freeze in the winter. I recently told my children I would purchase a bag of frogs and we could put them in the freezer as a science experiment—which they weren’t that excited about. However, it is considered animal abuse for a random person to take a frog and shove it in the freezer because that isn’t how they are designed to “hibernate.”
Jesus calls us to consider the lilies. The Word of God draws our attention to the mountains of Bashan and Carmel, to gaze upon the cedars of Lebanon. We thus lift our eyes and see the beauty and contrasting, endless colors. This is all wonderful and certainly God’s intention that we should see and savor His handiwork. But we don’t end the meditation there.
Do you remember God’s phenomenal care of the frogs? Exodus 8:5, “Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”
The frog freezes in the swamp water by the miraculous design of Almighty God. We draw our eyes downward and see not only the beauty (perhaps a mysterious kind of beauty) but the magnificent thoughtfulness on display. Even in such little things as frogs who freeze and worms who fertilize the soil when all the leaves have fallen. We love to see the big, expansive works of God in our lives. But is His providential hand any less active in the little, unnoticed things in our lives? The frozen frog leads to me consider that God cares about the little things. God hears the prayers—because our Lord desires us to notice and meditate on His work day-to-day.
Let us turn the smallest thing we can think of back to God in our prayers. Remember He has a purpose there as much as in shaping the Grand Canyon.
Pastor Chris
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