Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise. Without leader, administrator, or ruler, it prepares it's provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest.
Do you want to make a difference in your life or in the life of someone around you? Then pay attention to the metaphor of the ant. It amazes me that one of God's smallest creatures can become one of His greatest teachers. The lessons the ant teaches us can be summarized this way:
A - Attitude of Initiative
Ants don't need a commander to tell them to get started.
N - Nature of Integrity
Ants work faithfully and need no outside accountability to keep them doing right.
T - Thirst for Industry
Ants work hard and will replace their anthill when it gets ruined.
S - Source of Light
Ants store provisions in summer.
God has asked us to be like the ant. To be hard workers for the Kingdom of God without being told to. To glorify Him with our lives by not being slackers in this world, but by being people committed to an Attitude of Initiative, a Nature of Integrity, a Thirst for Industry, and a Source of Light. If we consider and learn from the ways of the ant, we can grow wise. Would you be willing to humble yourself and learn from the ant?
1 comment:
I love how the ants have their eye on their goals and they just do it! They also work together at all their individual tasks to accomplish the same purpose!
I think of it at a team at church but also about churches in our community. How much more could we accomplish for Christ if we worked together in harmony!!
Ant for LP and for JC! Jen
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