No Overseer Or
Ruler
Go
to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its
food at harvest.
How
long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
A
little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— and
poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
Proverbs 6:6-11
When
a building deck falls in at the back of your house you have to look at how it
was constructed, how long it was in place, whose fault it was that it fell in
the first place. Sometimes we find that things were constructed without proper
oversight.
Think
about ants. They don’t seemingly have supervisors to watch their every move,
but the work gets done.
What
about us. Do we need direct supervision or can we be relied on to get the job
done, correctly? Do we do good work only when someone is watching? Or do we
recognize that all of our work is done for God, and do our best at all times,
even when we are not being watched?
No matter who your boss is, you are really working for God.
Our Daily Bread –