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God often surprises me with something I never thought of. Many Christians have read their Bibles many times over. And surprisingly God has always something new everytime we open up our Bibles. And tonight is just one of those moments.

I was reading from Proverbs 30, about the 4 animals that are described as small and yet they’re exceedingly wise. Here the reading:

the ants are a people not strong,
    yet they provide their food in the summer;

the rock badgers are a people not mighty,
    yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
 
the locusts have no king,
    yet all of them march in rank;

The questions that came to me were something like,”so how does it look like for the ants?” They’re not strong like lions or tigers who could hunt their preys when they’re hungry. Therefore they took long time and long plannings to get their food. They’re not in the business of fast return? They foresee to the future needs and busy spending their time preparing. These are “not strong” (whatever strength physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, etc) people. Therefore they prepared long in advance to make up for their “weakness” or “smallness”. These are wise people. They’re not strong, but they’re definitely wise. They get their food just as the strong. They survive by their wisdom. But they plan far ahead.