Proverbs. 30:24-28
Part 4
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 then meat in the summer;
“The, conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; “The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.
“The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in king’s palaces.”
We have talked of the first two of these little creatures, the ants and the conies, now we will speak of the locusts. They are like what we call grasshoppers, and when full grown, rise up altogether from one place, and fly very direct to another place, often a long distance. They do not seem to touch, or get in the way of one another, and do not swerve from their course, yet they have “no king” to lead. When birds fly in flocks there are strong birds to lead; even when men march together they have a leader; but the locusts go in great swarms without leaders.
They seem always to fly with the wind which helps them on their journeys. When God sent the swarms of locusts to trouble the wicked men of Egypt, He sent an east wind to bring them, and there were so many the sky was darkened, and they ate every green plant and leaf.
Locusts still often do great damage to fields and gardens, so farmers do not like to have them come. Yet we can say they are very wise little creatures to know to rise up at the same time, and keep together when they fly. This because of the wisdom or instinct, God has given them.
We believe God meant a lesson from the locusts, but perhaps the lesson is for older boys and girls: the Lord Jesus said that the Holy Spirit should come to earth to be a guide to His people. No one can see the Holy Spirit; yet if God’s people are wise to obey the Spirit, as the Word of God shows, they will be led together as the locusts who journey “in bands”.
These verses tell of the Holy Spirit: “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, and canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” John 3:88The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8).
“When He, the Spirit of truth, is come He will guide you into all truth„“ John 116:13.
ML 05/04/1941