Consider The Ant

Consider The Ant

 
#1

They handed her the doctor's report. You have 4th stage cancer. She kept tapping her fingers on the table, not saying a word. In her eyes was a blank gaze. She later told me all she could see was her own death. In her imagination, everybody gathered around her body crying. What was especially hard was seeing her baby who was now 30 years old crying...

#2

It was especially hard for him to breathe. He said it felt like ten tons of bricks on his chest. We had just lost another friend to congestive heart failure. After he was rushed to the hospital, he found out that he had an aneurysm explode in his heart. What kind of silliness is this, he pondered?

#3

Everything he wanted to eat, he ate in abundance. Sugar, fat, caffeine, everything. He never thought there would be a day of reckoning. He did what he wanted to women there without regrets. He now lies in a hospital bed with kidney liver and heart troubles.

Life is very serious. In Proverbs, the writer asks us to consider the ant. He makes provision for winter all summer long. He has no ruler or overseer. He works toward his goal of being prepared.

Youth is a deceiver. Good times and youthful resolve, lulls you into false comfortability.

Time is given by God as an allotment for choices regarding our future. We have instead wasted so much of it on the dictates of our flesh.

Do what feels good no matter how it hurts others. Do not consider the outcome that may indeed hurt others.

Do what feels good no matter how it affect our own body.

Live for the moment.

"I have time".

I have time...

This mindset is everything that the Enemy of God wants you to have.

The people in stories #1 and #2 came against me at work. They plotted my demise. They determined that they were going to get me fired. They set me up for failure on many occasions. They sabotaged my work. I couldn't figure out their reasons for doing so. They had good positions with good pay, but I became their target. They talked about me behind my back. They showed themselves wise when speaking to the bosses about my failures (their sabotages). I just kept working. I gave God praise while it was happening, but it was still stressful. Finally, they laughed at my defeats.

Is God punishing them concerning me?

No,

I don't think so. I don't think that they considered that all things will come into accountability unto God. Unlike the ant, they did not consider winter was coming.

Having gone through some health issues myself, knowing what it is to suffer, it is my responsibility to pray for them because winter comes for everybody.

The person in the third story ballooned up in excess of 400 pounds. He ate everything going and coming. He did not consider the effect of excess sugar, salt, fat and alcohol on his body. He never considered the effect of infidelity upon his mates. Being a minister he never considered his challenging of pastors in front of their flocks.

He never considered the traps that he set for others. Before his eyes, his body was aging. All he saw was 400 pounds of prime choice.

He never considered that winter was coming.

I now have these three on my prayer list to be prayed for in my time of prayer.

I pray because winter is coming and I must have the essentials of life stored for when spring or summer are ended.