Proverbs 30:25: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer.
Insight
There is a deeper message here. There are so many people who make no arrangement beyond death. We are here for a few fleeting moments of time, and then there will be the endless ages of eternity. Isn’t it foolish to care for the physical body and neglect the soul? Isn’t it foolish to make no preparation for eternity? The wicked emperor of Rome, Hadrian, said something like this when he was dying: “No more crown for this head, no more beauty for these eyes, no more music for these ears, and no more food for this stomach of mine. But my soul, oh, my soul, what is to become of you?” It is a certainty that we shall die. It is possible to live for this life only, to eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. A person can spend his time building bigger barns, but God tells us to be prepared to meet our God. 1
Application
Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. Proverbs 6:6–8
Have you made all the necessary preparations to spend eternity with Jesus? Do you have 100% assurance that you will go to heaven when you die? Read 1 John 5:10-13 then answer this question with complete honestly and hopefully with full assurance.
Motivation
But now ask the beasts, and the birds of the air, and they will tell you. Job 12:7
To be uncertain of your place in eternity is to live your life for the here and now, but be tormented by the hereafter forever. – TWEET IT
Prayer
Father, please open the hearts of all people to accept Your free gift of eternal life.
1. McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: Poetry (Proverbs) (electronic ed., Vol. 20). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
