verse 6: “Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise,”
Solomon here is advising against the slothful man. Of all of the creatures God has made, among the hardest working is the ant. I’m often reminded of the Aesop fable The Grasshopper and the Ant, in which the lazy, carefree grasshopper wastes the days of summer, while the hard-working ant is storing up food in the summer, knowing the hard winter is coming. In the end, the grasshopper (who almost freezes to death as well as starves to death) is rescued by the ants, and learns his lesson.
God made men and women to work, to do. I know many a recently-retired friend, who gets kidded about “man, you’ll have it made when you retire…nothing to do!” The already retired friends of the newly-retired friend assure them, “oh no, there’s still plenty to do!” We are among our happiest times when we are doing constructive work, especially if we enjoy what we do.
Jesus Himself charged the disciples with the Great Commission: go and make disciples! Tell the Good News, and those you tell, tell others! If that isn’t something meaningful to do, then what is?
Have a blessed day!
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