As I was sweeping out the front porch this morning, I noticed a long narrow line of ants scuttling back and forth. Even though I don’t like ants around the house, I couldn’t help but marvel at how these little creatures kept even rank, each one seeming to know exactly where it was going and what it was about. They are such an amazing little creature, that they are held up as an example to lazy human beings in the Bible……”Go to the ant you sluggard! Learn her ways and be wise!” we are told in Proverbs 6:6-9. These verses tell us to be like the ant and not to be lazy but to get up and get going off to our own work.
Whenever there is a bit of food on the ground, those ants seem to find it! They all hurry to the spot, and do their best to get as much of it as they can. I wonder if we are like this with God’s Word? We are told that it is more necessary than our daily food, and yet how many of us bother to even look into its pages! How much time do we take to read it during the week? Or do we just open it on Sundays while waiting for people to arrive at church?
Let’s take these things to heart and to make time for the things that matter most!