Did you ever notice how God tucks wisdom in the most unexpected places? Solomon did. This wisest of kings pointed his students toward something small, something most of us would step over without a second thought, an ant.
“Go to the ant,” he wrote in Proverbs 6:6, “consider her ways and be wise.”
Consider her ways. What a tender invitation. God doesn’t scold us for needing to learn. He simply says, “Look. Watch. Learn.”
And what do we see? Verses 7 and 8 tells us that the ant is a creature with no supervisor, no motivational speaker, no life coach, yet she shows up. Day after day, she does what needs doing. She’s a self-starter in a world that loves to sleep in.
The ant works hard, this tiny teacher. No complaints, no excuses. She provides for herself and her colony with steady, faithful effort.
And here’s the part that stirs me most: she prepares. While the sun shines and the harvest ripens, she gathers. She knows winter is coming. She lives with one eye on today and one on tomorrow.
What if we lived like that? What if we stopped waiting for someone to push us, stopped living only for this moment, and instead moved forward with purpose and preparation?
God’s classroom has no walls. Today, your teacher might be six-legged and smaller than your fingernail.
Consider her ways!
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.