Freaking ants (part one)!

There's an ant problem underfoot! They're also in the walls, in the ceiling, on the counters, in the food...you name it and they are there. The slightest crumb...NO, even the slightest rumor of a crumb and they scurry from their hiding places to obtain the prized possession! For years we have blasted them with Raid, dusted their walkways with diatomacious earth, rinsed them into the disposal, washed them with the dishes, stepped on them, slapped them, poisoned them with Terro baits and STILL they continue to come! As Kyle Reese says in Terminator (slightly modified), "They will not stop, ever, until you are dead!" And even then I am certain they won't stop haunting me.

One particularly feisty group of them is coming into the house from behind a light switch plate; I caulked behind the plate. They started coming in from from the actual switch; I caulked around the entire wall mount. They started coming in from a hole in the mount; I gave up.

Even the ancients considered the wise ways of the ants. Remember Aesop's fables and the story of the Ant and the grasshopper? The synopsis given on Wikipedia is this:

The fable concerns a grasshopper who has spent the warm months singing away while the ant (or ants in some editions) worked to store up food for winter. When winter arrives, the grasshopper finds itself dying of hunger, and upon asking the ant for food is only rebuked for its idleness. The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and saving, and the perils of improvidence. Some versions of the fable state a moral at the end, along the lines of:

Idleness brings want
To work today is to eat tomorrow
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

Proverbs 6:6-11 speaks of the relentless creature in terms of laziness as well:

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!

7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,

8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?

10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest-

11 and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.

We see what the perseverance of the ant can do in the parable of the persistent woman when Jesus speaks of her in Luke 18:

"In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. ³And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

⁴"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, ⁵yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "

Thus, will I continue in my quest to learn the perseverance of the ant...in order to destroy the ant! MUWAHAHAHA! ::evil laughter::

What's the application in all this? Well, if there is Scripture then it must speak of the Lord! So, do not tire in seeking the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near for He is our portion in the land of the living. Trust in Him and He will carry you through all of life's trials for God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble.