An Ant of The Dust Prepares for Winter

The Lord Jesus is not just good or better or best. He is above all things. To say that God is wise is foolish in many regards, for the wisdom of the Creator of the universe is far exceeding any human understanding.  

📜 Colossians 1:15-17 NASB2020

[15]  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: [16] for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. [17] He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 

We cannot fathom the expanse of all He is and no words or thought of man can describe His being. All we can describe or say comes from a miniscule and feeble understanding.

 I am no greater than even an ant for it is wiser than me.

📜 Proverbs 6:6-9 NASB20

Go to the ant, you lazy one,

Observe its ways and be wise, 

Which, having no chief,

Officer, or ruler, 

Prepares its food in the summer

And gathers its provision in the harvest. 

How long will you lie down, you lazy one?

When will you arise from your sleep?

While man stands tall it is in the small things of creation that the Teacher reveals great truth from the least: 

📜 Proverbs 30:24-28 NASB20 

Four things are small on the earth,

But they are exceedingly wise:

The ants are not a strong people,

But they prepare their food in the summer; 

The rock hyraxes are not a mighty people,

Yet they make their houses in the rocks; 

The locusts have no king,

Yet all of them go out in ranks; 

The lizard you may grasp with the hands,

Yet it is in kings’ palaces.

Who am I to question? Or to even ask the Father for anything? I am but of dust, which is tampled by the beasts of this earth and washed into the rivers when rain comes and to dust one day I will return. Both the wise and the fool meet the same fate. The penalty for choice of sin. The blight of disobedience.

So as a man of small account I lay my hand on my mouth. (Job 40:4)

My prayer for today is for more time. (though I long to bask in the glory and light of the Father's love!) This is so I may go and tell of the way to overcome.

📜 John 16:33 NASB2020

[33] These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

I take note from the ant: wise to prepare food in the summer in anticipation of the winter trials

So as a soldier in service of my Lord I will commit scripture to my heart, grow faith in my bones, and live in obediance with joyful submission to the King. There is nothing else worth doing under this sun. For I love the Lord my God and Savior of the world.