the little boy and the ant trail
The old pastor once told me .a story
''When I was a little boy and naturally i simply loved critters,,,i loved watching ants,
how industerous they are and how busy,,,,,always moving ,never still
i seen several get 'drown' in a little trickle of a stream of water running near a little mudhole, ....at the bottom of that hillside.... their path took them over, as they all arow scamper down...then I .... loved to watch ants crawl, about in their work .....they were so industerous, seemed to always be in a big hurry ,
.he said ''I laid down on my belly ,beside of that trail of them,,,,i watched as some more ants pick up the drowned dead ant and haul him on the journey also,,, .he was not left behind.,...
indeed I watched them little ants, going down this steep little hill ,,,,all in a straight row, one right after the other, they all finally wind down and cross the bottom of the little valley below with a little trickling stream of water,,,,,, in the middle and then wind their way up to the top of the other side of the mudhole ..
.I felt like a big construdction worker .....a giant watching my little friends , labor so hard
they needed help......
i watched as they finally after this long long journey,,, then on they file one by one,,,, in a long row into into their little anthill house......
a deep hole in the ground....
''They sure are making a hard job out of this'' i though in my giant mind,,,
finally i said to myself, "I will help them" and I laid a stick down in the path of them that went across that little valley to the other side
i felt so very proud, of myself ,,, for solving their problem of so many steps ....the giant man to the rescue of a lot of workers, ,,,
now their task would be simple, and they could cut time,,,,
The (stick) bridge would be so much better., the little ants could just go across this new stick bridge to the other side and right into their house and save themselves just a whole lot of time.....
not having to go down one hill and up another ...carrying their load of stuff back to their homes,
I tried and tried to point them in the right direction, and you know what ?
"no matter how hard i tried to get them ants to take the short cut,, they insisted on their long journey ,down what looked like a mountain and up the other side ,,,,instead of taking the new bridge short cut."-----
Then i think to myself .....'' wonder why they do not want to take the short cut,,,?''
The ''tried and true ''was the ants motto,
what was simple to me ....was another obstacle to the ants, ,,who had grown accustomed to their journey and just how long it would take,after all ants do not wear a watch and time means nothing to them,,,
it made me think of some of these false teachers which skim around all over trying,,,,, to find a better way to go to heaven than to follow the tried and true way....''
Ecclesiastes 3
1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3A time to kill, and a time time to break down, and a time to build up; to heal
