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Devotional Reflection

The document discusses ants and lessons that can be learned from their behavior and characteristics. It notes that ants are small but exceedingly wise, with goals of survival and cooperation without leaders. Ants communicate, persevere, know when to prepare food and fight, and live in harmony with others. The key lessons are unity without leaders, communication, perseverance, wisdom in timing, and knowing when to fight or cooperate with others. The conclusion encourages embracing both strengths and weaknesses with God's grace and living symbiotically with those different than oneself.

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Devotional Reflection

The document discusses ants and lessons that can be learned from their behavior and characteristics. It notes that ants are small but exceedingly wise, with goals of survival and cooperation without leaders. Ants communicate, persevere, know when to prepare food and fight, and live in harmony with others. The key lessons are unity without leaders, communication, perseverance, wisdom in timing, and knowing when to fight or cooperate with others. The conclusion encourages embracing both strengths and weaknesses with God's grace and living symbiotically with those different than oneself.

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Devotional

Reflection
Isaiah 41:10
Fear not, for I am with you, be not
dismayed, for I am your God, I will
strengthen you, I will uphold you
with my righteous right hand.
Am I enough?
Proverbs 6:6-9;
New King James Version (NKJV)
Proverbs 30: 24-25
6 
Go to the ant, you sluggard!
New King James Version (NKJV)
Consider her ways and be wise,
7 
Which, having no captain, 24 
There are four things
Overseer or ruler,
8 
Provides her supplies in the summer,
which are little on the
And gathers her food in the harvest. earth,
9 
How long will you slumber, O But they are exceedingly
sluggard? wise:
When will you rise from your sleep? 25 The ants are a people
not strong,
Yet they prepare their
food in the summer;
The different kind of ants in a colony:
The founders of all colonies
Egg laying machine (can lay millions of eggs
for many years once fertilized)
Can live up to 30 years

Reproductive winged ants


It’s main role is to mate the future queen ants
They do not live very long
Sterile female ants
Smallest but they do the most work in the
colony
Some look after the queen and brood,
some forage for food from around the nest,
whilst others maintain and expand the nest.
Workers can live between a few months and
up to five years.

Sterile female ants


Larger and stronger than typical worker ants
They protect their colony from large
predators and use their strength and large jaws
(mandibles) to cut and carry larger objects.
Ants are created little by God

Ants are twice mentioned/


referred in Proverbs and twice
described as WISE (exceedingly)

Their SIZE is both a symbol of


weakness and strength. 30:25
What can we learn from
their behavior (soldier ants)?
1. They have a Goal. To make the colony survive.
2. They are United. Even without a leader, they
gather food in the summer.
3. They Communicate. When foraging, ants leave a
pheromone trail so that they know where they’ve been.
4. They Persevere. An ant can lift 20 times its own body
weight.
5. They are considered WISE. Ants know when is the
right timing/season to prepare or gather food. (Prepares their
food/supplies in the summer; Gathers her food in the harvest –
Prov 6:8-9; 30:25b)
6. They know when to fight and when to live in
harmony with others.

When ants fight, it is


usually to the death! Ants
live in harmony with other
insects. i.e. Ants help aphids
in the movement in exchange
of food (sweet liquid
excreted by the aphids)
Share a trait that you
consider both a strength
and weakness.
As a person, let us embrace not just our strengths
but our weaknesses as well. Knowing that God’s
grace is sufficient in our weakness.

As God’s worker let us live symbiotically with


others even when they are different.
Complementation of weaknesses with strengths
would surpass any challenges with God’s help.

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