Consider the Ant
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.” - Proverbs 6:6-8 (KJV) How humbling it must have been for Solomon’s original readers to be directed to learn from an ant. Not the mighty lion, not the soaring eagle, not the wise owl… just the tiny little creature probably laying on the underside of their sandals! The most common, most neglected, most trodden upon of all creatures becomes the object lesson for the sluggard. ...