Learning from an ANT

Proverbs 6:6-11 (New Living Translation)

⁶      Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones.

      Learn from their ways and become wise!

⁷      Though they have no prince

      or governor or ruler to make them work,

⁸      they labor hard all summer,

      gathering food for the winter.

⁹      But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep?

      When will you wake up?

¹⁰      A little extra sleep, a little more slumber,

      a little folding of the hands to rest—

¹¹      then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit;

      scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

 

         The ant is diligent at work with no lord or master ruling them but the ant works hard during the summer and has food for the winter. The ant works when others desire to play and are able to rest when times become hard because of the work it has done before the times became hard.

 

Lazy people or consistent procrastinators will think a little sleep will not hurt. I can rest and fold my hands and be idle now there is plenty of time to do this work later. Yet the problem is if you do not have the time now when will you have the time to make it up? You cannot make up time. Once time is gone it is gone. Only when you have done the work that is needed should you rest from your labors. If you do not do the work you will see poverty and scarcity come on you for your lack of diligence.

         God calls us to be responsible with the time He has given us and working for His kingdom while we have time. We do not know the day or the hour Jesus will return. Jesus is coming back so we need to work now and surrender your life to Jesus. "Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain (1Cor. 15:58 ¶ NIV)."

 

Samuel Duren

rev.duren@zionbcpeoria.com

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