I don’t even get to hate ants!

Truly, I’m not kidding and now in hindsight I am so glad. Would you like to hear this story? Good. Because I have to have something to write about and this is a fresh happening.

Yesterday the front porch was host to a million ants. No I am not exaggerating. There were at least four streams of them hiking from east to west (and my hubby would be proud to know I know the direction) the span of the front porch. I warred with them off and on throughout the day — they won.  So last night in a last attempt just after nightfall, I uncoiled the water hose and proceeded to produce a tsunami for them, hoping the forceful flood of water would slaughter at least 500,000 of them and would discourage the return of the others.

This morning in the early waking hours I sensed some unrest in my spirit and I was not prepared to live with it so I inquired of the LORD. And sure enough. I don’t get to hate ants. Not because He has a fondness for ants above me but because hating ants is destructive to me. That is not to say I must resign myself to ‘peacefully’ co-exist with them, but it is to say even in the thick of the battle to separate myself from them I must not hate them. If I want to abide in the peace of GOD and I do, I must have a heart of thanksgiving and void of hatred for anything, anyone, any creature.  I get to hate one thing — sin.

So do you have some ‘ants’ in your life; the very human kind? At all cost, forgive and petition the LORD to remove the hate from your heart. There is no other way to have His peace abiding in you; no other way to have His blessings.

Did the tsunami work? Of course not! They are back this morning. Same hiking trails as yesterday. The only change is me. I’m smiling and in sweet peace — ants and all. Albeit we did fed them some Sevin Dust this morning — time will tell. :)

Proverbs 6:6 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise,
via Proverbs 6:6 NASB – Go to the ant O sluggard Observe her – Bible Gateway.

Amen and amen. We can learn a lot from an ant.  :)

Happy weekend to you all.

His Ministry to you,
Kathie

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