The key to this lesson is to see that all around us as the work of God. This changes our perspective and enables us to draw many other lessons from nature which we would not otherwise see.
This is said for our comfort and we must receive this mild correction with the utmost humility, recognising how apt it is. Yes, we are those of little faith: we have such a great Provider and yet we are so prone to be anxious as if we were totally alone and needed to supply all our needs without anyone to help us. It should be easy for us to pass through this world with confidence in the Lord even though we cannot see him, for his promises to care for us are so fulsome and so well kept that we have no reason to doubt him. Our faith should be so much greater than it is, for he is so much more able than we have recognised. Faith is a response to the faithfulness of another and there is no limit to the faithfulness of God. It is greatly to our disadvantage that we do not trust God more, for we bring unnecessary anxiety and concern into our hearts. How much more comfortable it is to go through life with the knowledge that underneath us are the everlasting arms. His plan takes all our actions into consideration and weaves his providences around them. It takes account of our prayers also and gives us the strongest incentive to ask.
Pink comments that it is not the strength or weakness of our faith that saves, but clinging to the Right Object. Faith, he says, various greatly from one individual to another and in the same individual, at different times of life. It makes a great deal of difference to our comfort and assurance, he says, but doubting and weakness that is in a ‘little faith’ does not damn us if we bewail it and use the means for strengthening it.