John Piper encourages us from Matthew 10:
Then Jesus adds one other ingredient to this argument for fearlessness: namely, verse 30: “Even the hairs of your head are all numbered.” God knows us minutely. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He has counted and named every hair, even though they are of little value. And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
So there are three things that conspire in this last argument to give us peace:
- 1) God knows us perfectly;
- 2) God governs our lives and the world minutely;
- 3) God cares for us with fatherly concern.
How does this comfort us if the sparrow still falls and if the enemy still kills the body? It doesn’t, unless that mind is in us which was also in Christ. When we have the values of Jesus, we will not need to be assured even of life on this earth. It will be enough to know that our Father in heaven loves us deeply, knows us fully, and governs us completely, and that, therefore, everything that befalls us is for our good. So don’t be afraid of anything except unbelief.
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