Today’s Thought “Approval Rating” G. Ward Matthew 10 29 Are two sparrows not sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 But even the hairs of your head are all counted. 31 So do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows. I most certainly wasn’t there to interrogate what King David meant when recording the Lord as his Shepherd, but I’m acquainted with his having been a young shepherd boy at a time in his life – understanding how necessary it was to keep these defenseless sheep in line and oversee all they would ingest as they would graze in the fields among poisonous plants, etc. He would then say because of the Lord’s vigilance, that he wouldn’t want for anything; the Father’s sufficiency provides. David is/was no higher than we are. Therefore, this accommodation belongs to any who will regard His sufficiency (cf. John 14:6) and whereas we reverence His Holy Name, refusing often to approach this great throne for what we deem as small, nothing is…