I was in the back yard of our church enjoying the evening breeze when I noticed some ants crawling around on the Hibiscus.  They were busily doing exactly what God had intended them to do, focused and not at all distractible.  Watching this made me stop and “consider the ant,” if you will.

There are a lot of bad things going on around the world right now.  But, the ants keep working.  Markets are crumbling and economies are failing.  But, the ants keep working.  Even the winged ants (which by being the most mobile, I suppose would be the most in-tune to the things going on in the world) work seemingly unaffected.

Even more interestingly, even things that directly impacted them (short of death) could not keep them from completing the tasks to which they were set.  Put a stick in front of them, they go over or around it.  Move them somewhere (within reason, they are ants after all) and they find their trail and continue with the work with which they were tasked.

In many ways, it wouldn’t hurt for us to be like that.  Sure, there may be obstacles and hardships at times.  But just keep working with focus and determination on the tasks that God has set you to… just like the ant.

~ Tom

For further thoughts on the ants, see Proverbs 6:6-8.