Charles Spurgeon Commentary Luke 12:27

"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they toil not, neither do they spin; yet I say unto you, Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." — Luke 12:27 (ASV)

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say to you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

So God cares not only for things that have necessities, as ravens have, but for things that have luxuries, as lilies have. When God does anything, he does it well.

He is a grand Housekeeper; he does not measure out so many ounces of bread per diem, as if we were in a workhouse, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

The lilies might do as well without their golden hues; they might ripen their seed without the lengthened stems that lift them where they can be observed. But God takes more care of them even than Solomon did of himself, for Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Now, dear children of God, if you trust your Heavenly Father, he will see that you have no cause for care.

If you trust him with your souls, he will not give you a bare salvation, but a rich robe of righteousness to cover all your nakedness. When he does any work, he does it after a better fashion than the wisest of men could do it; and nature herself, working as she does for the lilies, is only God working in another way. But when God himself, without the intervention of the laws of nature, works in the kingdom of his grace, he does it perfectly; he does it gloriously.