Four things on earth are small, but exceedingly wise. The ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in summer. The badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the rocks. The locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank. The lizard you can pick up in your hands, yet it finds a home in the palaces of kings. See how these ancient lessons still apply. Like ants, there are times when we might be feeling quite small, but working together in a community of faith, we can accomplish many things which would otherwise be completely impossible. Sometimes like the badger, we may feel shunted aside and ignored, yet if we persist in our faith, we may find that it is possible to make a home even in the most rocky and uninviting soil. Like the locusts, we may not have a high and mighty leader who can tell us what to do or where to turn in any situation of peril, but as we remain open to the call of the Spirit that beckons from within, then we may move forward in the cause of Christ marching like a mighty army. And even a small group of committed Christians can badger the hell out of the principalities and powers of this planet, as Nelson Mandela and the others in South Africa have so clearly demonstrated in our day and age. And then there remains of course the lesson that is relevant in moments of desperation when even the hard work of the ant, the persistence of the badger, or the discipline of the locust seem to fail. Theres that rather crude word of hope which the author of Ecclesiastes shared with all of us who are sometimes so tired and discouraged that we are feeling like dogs. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:14:56 +0000
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