Fire-Ant Faith

If you have never stumbled into a bed of fire ants, consider yourself blessed!  Those almost microscopic creatures quickly and easily trespassers into a ... fire-ant dance!

The Prophet Jeremiah referred to an intense faith when he wrote these words, "Sometimes I say to myself, 'I will forget about the Lord. I will not speak anymore in his name.' But then his message becomes like a burning fire inside me." (Jeremiah 20:9)  Can't you just hear the fervor in Jeremiah's words! It's sad that many Christians get more worked up at a football game or over a holiday sale paper than over the Greatness of God.  Believers need a hearty dose of Jeremiah's intensity for God.  For those of us who have blundered onto a mound of fire ants, we understand urgency and excitement. Ours should be a "fire-ant" faith that compels us to share Christ as we go. Maybe we'll look a little differently at those fire ants from now on ... from a safe distance, of course!