One Sunday morning, a wealthy man
sat in his balcony enjoying sunshine and his coffee when a little ant caught
his eye which was going from one side to the other side of the balcony carrying
a big leaf several times more than its size.
The man watched it for more than an
hour. He saw that the ant faced many impediments during its journey, paused,
took a diversion and then continued towards destination. At one point the tiny
creature came across a crack in the floor. It paused for a little while,
analyzed and then laid the huge leaf over the crack, walked over the leaf,
picked the leaf on the other side then continued its journey.
The man was captivated by the
cleverness of the ant, one of God’s tiniest creatures. The incident left the
man in awe and forced him to contemplate over the miracle of Creation. It
showed the greatness of the Creator. In front of his eyes there was this tiny
creature of God, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to analyze,
contemplate, reason, explore, discover and overcome. Along with all these
capabilities, the man also noticed that this tiny creature shared some human
shortcomings.The man saw about an hour later the creature had reached its destination–a
tiny hole in the floor which was entrance to its underground dwelling. And it
was at this point that the ant’s shortcoming that it shared with the man was
revealed.
How could the ant carry into the
tiny hole the large leaf that it had managed to carefully bring to the
destination? It simply couldn’t! So the tiny creature, after all the
painstaking and hard work, and exercising great skills, overcoming all the
difficulties along the way, just left behind the large leaf and went home
empty-handed.The ant had not thought about the end before it began its
challenging journey and in the end the large leaf was nothing more than a
burden to it. The creature had no option, but to leave it behind to reach its
destination. The man learned a great lesson that day.
Isn’t that the truth about our
lives? We worry about our family, we worry about our job, we worry about how to
earn more money, we worry about where we should live– 5 bedroom or 6 bedroom
house, what kind of vehicle to buy–a Mercedes or BMW or a Porsche, what kind of
dresses to wear, all sorts of things, only to abandon all these things when we
reach our destination–The Grave. We don’t realize in our life’s journey that
these are just burdens that we are carrying with utmost care and fear of losing
them, only to find that at the end they are useless and we can’t take them with
us.
THERE HAS TO BE. CONTENTMENT AT SOME
LEVEL IN LIFE. NOTHING EXCEPT THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL GO ALONG TO THE FINAL
DESTINATION.
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