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“God sits high above the round ball of earth.  the people look like mere ants.”  Isaiah 40:22 (MSG)

I don’t like bugs.  I’m not sure if that sentence truly conveys how much I don’t like bugs?  I DON’T LIKE BUGS!  But my niece loves them.  One of her favorite activities is sitting on the ground and watching an ant hill for hours.  I can become just as caught up in those ants as my niece.  Have you ever watched them?  There can be one straight line of ants walking, while others run in the opposite direction. They bump into each other, turn around and continue in various directions.  Their lives seem so limited, and they have no idea that the world is much larger than their environment.  I wonder if God thinks the same thing about us?

Like ants, we are busy and on the move in different directions.  When we encounter others, sometimes we get turned around and take a wrong path.  Our busyness and self-centeredness can make us oblivious to anything outside of what we see or experience.  Are we aware of the world around us?  The apostle Paul tells us that life is more than meets the eye.  He wrote that everything in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, was created by God.  Our temporary world that we daily encounter is microscopic compared to what God has created, which we cannot observe.

If we ever see a procession of ants around the yard, we should consider our place and purpose in God’s immense world, and self-evaluate if our chosen path is headed in the right direction.

“Lord make me mindful of the world I cannot see.  Help me remember that there is so much to do and so much more out there than my little section of the world.  But Lord allow me to make the difference for You in my little section.  Allow others to make the difference in their little section so that we can work together and make a huge impact on the world.”

For His Glory

Melissa Tucker
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