Look To The Ant!

On Sunday all the toilets in the our beautiful church building stopped working during the second service. Not good......

Luckily, none of them "back-up" and over flowed causing any real mess. It was quickly determined that one of the large trucks that were here on Saturday for the work day must have run over the sewer line leading out to the septic tank area. On Monday he search began for the crushed line. After digging around no crushed line could be found. Then, by chance, one of our volunteers who was working with our facilities manager checked the electric box that runs the pump at the septic tank area. This pump keeps the "stuff" flowing from the lines, to the tank, to where ever the final resting place may be!

Sure enough the electric box that runs the pump had its lines damaged, fried, blown and cut in half. They noticed that millions of ants had invaded the electric box, dug under the earth and came back out the conduit holding the wires and had eaten the plastic around the wires, the wires and everything else causing it to blow and short circuit. Fried ants everywhere! However, millions of other ants we loving their super charged new home.

Take a minute to think about how long it took those little tiny ants to do that. Think of the hard work and the team work. Think of how many died in the process so that the "task" could be completed for their little nation of ants. The Queen must have been real pleased with all the little ants that worked so hard.

Is it no wonder that the Bible implores us to look to the ants to see how hard they work. How dedicated they are to the task. How they are not afraid of sacrifice for the greater good and how they work as a Team.

Proverbs 6:6-11

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!

It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest-
and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.

Proverbs 30:25
Ants are creatures of little strength,yet they store up their food in the summer;

In a crazy but very biblical way I want to be seen as an Ant! I want our church to be known as a Team of Ants! One Purpose, Shared Responsibility, Personal Devotion!

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