No. 1.
The Ants.
I WAS once walking through one of the streets of a seaside resort, when I noticed a number of little creatures running along on the ground, all going in the same direction. They were Ants, and close to where I was passing they had their nest.
1 am sure there is a lesson to be learned from the Ants. Will you, then, please take your Bible, and turn to Proverbs 30:24, 2524There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: 25The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; (Proverbs 30:24‑25), where you will find it says, “There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise; the Ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.”
I dare say you know that Ants are very tiny creatures, and might easily be killed with the foot of a little child; yet God says of them, “They are exceeding wise.”
Perhaps you may ask, But how do they show their wisdom?
Well, it is just in this way, “They prepare their meat in the summer.” They seem to know there is a time coming when they will not be able to get food; and therefore, while they have the chance, they get ready for that time of scarcity by laying up a store; and in that way, therefore, they teach us to provide for our future needs.
A time is coming when this world, with all its riches and glories, will pass away; but God has shown us in His Word, that even the youngest child, by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, may have everlasting life and a home in the glory of God for eternity.
But now is the time to believe; today is the day of grace; tomorrow you may be left for judgment. While you have the opportunity then, be wise; avail yourselves of God’s abundant store of grace at once.
“Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near,” so that, when the day of salvation is past, you may be found to have been “exceeding wise.”
ML-10/10/1920