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Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?... There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins... O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! E.H. Shepherd's simple yet wonderfully precise illustrations have always been my favorite to see wedged in-between paragraphs. This sketch from the childhood classic "The Wind in the Willows" depicts two river-dwelling friends––a water rat and a mole––packing up provisions and gear for a day on the river. Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. Preaching on Genesis 11, Martyn Lloyd-Jones says, "the great lesson of this eleventh chapter of Genesis, the lesson of the Tower of Babel, is just this: people in sin are fools. They think they can defy Almighty God. They lay their plans without remembering him. They turn their backs upon God. They carry on. They begin to build. The tower goes up. Then suddenly God comes down, and it is all destroved. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

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