Proverbs 6
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise, v6.
Now, forgive me for suggesting you may be a sluggard. I am sure you are not a lazybones, slacker, loafer, a slug.
Yesterday I was in a conversation with someone who I hadn’t seen for several weeks. Back then I had started a keep fit DVD course and she was on a diet of some sort of drinks formula. We both asked each other how we were doing and we both gave the same response: we had given up!
So what does the ant teach us?
• It is possible to do what looks impossible.
Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight.
• You are stronger in a group.
An ant brain has about 250,000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
• Everyone has to adapt in some way to make it through life.
Adult ants cannot chew and swallow solid food. Instead they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food. They throw away the dry part that is left over.
• Defend yourself from the negatives that will try and crowd out your purpose.
Ants are clean and tidy insects. Some worker ants are given the job of taking the rubbish from the nest and putting it outside in a special rubbish tip!
• Keep moving.
At night the worker ants move the eggs into the nest to protect them from the cold. Army Ants are nomadic and they are always moving. They carry their larvae and their eggs with them in a long column.
• Encourage others.
If a worker ant has found a good source for food, it leaves a trail of scent so that the other ants in the colony can find the food.
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