When I read Proverbs 6:6 I couldn’t help but take a trip down memory lane.
When I was growing up, my cousin/best friend and I would walk her long dirt road and search for ants. It didn’t take long to find an ant pile. We would stop, stare, and be amazed by their busyness and strength. This observance didn’t occur only with Jeana years ago, but often and even recently.
Just a couple of weeks ago I was sitting at the edge of my brick walkway watching the boys play football in the park. A couple of ants caught my eye. They were minuscule in size and carrying a colossal size potato chip crumb. You could see that they had a plan for that chip. The ants must have a home through one of the many cracks on my road, and their home was their destination.
Tiny pebbles were obstacles on their way to their home with that chip. But did that obstacle cause the ants to come to a halt? Not a chance. They would tag team on the direction they were heading. They tried moving over and around all their hindrances. Those ants didn’t give up. They had a goal and were determined to bring their prize to their final destination.
“Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.
Learn from their ways and become wise!” Proverbs 6:6
Yes! Let’s take lesson from those ants.
For one, don’t be lazy! Get up and get busy. You can take this as saying; get busy with taking care of your health, get busy studying for those tests, get busy organizing or accomplishing that project you’ve been putting off, get busy doing God’s work, etc. Remember Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
Secondly, learn from their strength and determination. Don’t let obstacles get in your way of doing the right thing. Galatians 6:9 says, “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
Go be an ant today.
Blessings to you.
| February 22 |