Posted on 05/05/2022 11:32:34 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest” (Proverbs 6:6-8 KJV).
“. . . thou sluggard,” you got yourself a problem. You got yourself into something. Maybe you got into debt, maybe you are in a situation where you own the debt of somebody else because you co-signed for them, a family member or close friend. I don’t know why little kids want to grow up. If they had any brains, they would stay little kids all their lives. Because when little kids grow up, they have all the problems that mommy and daddy have.
You could apply it in a number of ways, but in this case, it is a man that has responsibility he doesn’t really want. He is surety for something. He either has to supply the money for a loan, or he has to back up another person, or he’s got his own loan to take care. This is for people that have loans and are having trouble making the payments. So, he says, now if you want to know how to get yourselves out of this, go to the ant.
The one thing you don’t do is sit down and worry about it. That will not do anybody any good. That will actually cause more harm than good. Worry has never paid any bills, and it has never solved any problems. It’s amazing how much time people give to reveling in something that just doesn’t do any good.
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise,” is an illustration. She is not waiting and hoping for a hand out. A lot of people get into debt and they immediately start looking for some kind of government program to help them out. That is not what the ant does. The ant just goes to work. I know sometimes it seems like the hole you got yourself dug into doesn’t have any way out—the ant carries 5-6 times its weight. It’s amazing what we can carry if we will just get busy. People have become so dependent upon welfare and the government that they just don’t think they can do. And really, that is exactly what government is saying when it spends upwards of a trillion dollars or more annually on welfare. They are saying that they have to take care of the people because they can’t take care of themselves.
“Which having no guide [nobody to lead her], overseer [nobody to check on her], or ruler [nobody to demand work from her],” in our individual lives no one is there to tell us what to do. We have to realize that it is up to you if you are going to make it.
“Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest,” she stores her provisions to meet the needs when they come so that she doesn’t have to beg. Most of the time when we take out needless loans, we are simply begging because we did not prepare for the coming needs.
Many will one day lift up their eyes, being in torment of an eternal Hell . . .
““I am in Hell! In Hell! In Hell!! These dark caverns of despair are to be my home forever! This is Hell! This is Hell! I am in Hell!
“Did I think it was so near? Why, I just left my home in your world ten minutes ago; now I am in Hell! Oh, is it possible! Oh, that this were only a dream, and I had another opportunity to go back to yonder world! How I would be saved and serve God! But my harvest is past, my summer is ended, my career on earth is over, I am lost! lost!””
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