Posted by
Eaglewings on Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:39:17 PM
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! proverbs 6:6
One ant is fine,two ants are okay as well but when
they show up by the thousands then well it is no longer fine. Ants have
their purpose in life and I am sure that God has great plans for the
tiny little ant, but as for me and my house I prefer to live an ant
free existence. I have nothing against these fine little black
creatures crawling around the earth in large numbers burrowing into the
ground heck, I even had an ant farm when I was a kid. I loved looking
at the intricate underground pathways these critters would burrow into
the sand but never did I contemplate for one minute allowing those
critters out of that glass menagerie and into my room to build their
home there. Outside is a great place for ants to play and roam around
and furrow for food but my house is not an ant farm and these critters
are not welcomed indoors.
That being said I need to recount a story of a friend of mine who
had moved into a new apartment out in the country. Country living can
be so relaxing at times but it also brings with it new challenges and
obstacles to overcome. On one particular occasion he recounted to me
the story of finding ants running across his living room floor. He
would proceed to kill one after the other but there would always be
another one to kill later. If it were me I would have been crazy with
the thought of these tiny little beings running all over the place and
crawling along my bed while I tried to sleep and doing God only knows
what those things do when no one is looking. Anyway after a few days of
this ant parade night after night he decided to introduce these ants to
MR RAID. Mr Raid, as advertised, rooted out these pesky critters and
littered the living room floor with not one, not two but several
hundred perhaps even a thousand ant corpses lying there in the morning
sun awaiting removal by Mr HOOVER. Those tiny terrorists had been
rooted out and destroyed and life returned to normal for my friend.
This silly little story points to a much larger lesson one can learn
if we but take the time to contemplate such things. Our society at
large is made up of many people groups and cultures. Some make good
neighbors while others, like the ants, can cause themselves to quickly
become unwelcomed. If we respect and honor our neighbors, and do not
invade their homes uninvited and unwelcomed, then we can all pretty
much live in peace, one with the other. It is at those times when we
make ourselves an unwelcomed guest in someone else’s house that we risk
a visit from the exterminator. We are then no longer a peaceful
neighbor but a pesky intruder. We have gone where we are not welcomed.
Now in the defense of our little ant buddies they do not possess the
intellect to know that their place is outside and not inside but those
of use who are of the human persuasion sure do know the limits of
respectful behavior. If we choose to cross that line of respectful
living then we deserve and should expect to be treated by a not welcome
sign. Any society that permits being overrun by tiny terrors will end
up being over run by a multitude of terrors. Their peaceful existence
will end and they will be reduced to a chaotic, unstable society. Just
like those little ant terrorists invaded my friends happy home and made
his living quarters far less inhabitable so does allowing terrorists to
continue to operate inside a country. Perhaps it is time to call for MR
RAID and end the overrun of these tiny terrorists.