Ants & Leaves; connection and purpose

Yesterday, I thought about two very abundant inhabitants of our environment, ants and leaves. First, I thought about leaves, or was it ants? I suppose it doesn’t matter; my revelation about one is no more important than my revelation about the other.

Let’s start with leaves, because my thoughts of them came from observing yesterday’s thunderstorm.

As the wind rushed through the crops and trees surrounding our farm house, it created a sound that drew me to a nearby window. At first, I was looking at the landscape as a whole, but then I narrowed my gaze down to individual leaves, whether they were on a Silver Maple Tree or stalk of corn. Each leaf was being held to its structure by one point of contact. While some leaves lost their grip and flew away from their place of creation, others clung and weathered the storm.

In a moment, I realized that we only need one true point of contact to keep our place in God’s creation, and that is our contact with Him. If we stay connected to Him, all of the other connections we are meant to have in our lives will be divinely connected by Him and through Him. They are the connections that will weather the storms, but you have to stay connected to God the Father, or else even the connections we are meant to have can blow away.

And this is where the ants come in; my revelation about ants has nothing to do with the leaf revelation above, except that God is the center of the point.

We have ant colonies all over our farm and the surrounding land. My son and I found an ant hill while walking in the big fields behind our house that must be decades old. It was at least two feet tall and covered in grass and other vegetation. It had the look of an ancient empire.

Anyway, I was not actually watching ants when I had this thought, but sometimes God gives us thoughts with visions so we can better understand what He wants to tell us. In this case, he showed me ants.

The ants I saw in my mind were walking in a long line until one ant saw food that the other ants did not see. The ant who saw the food got out of line to go get the food, and then immediately went back to the ant hill to deliver and share its findings for the good of the colony – the good of the whole.

The meaning of this vision came to me right away. The Lord shows each of us different things, gives each of us our own tasks to complete, for the greater good of His kingdom. It is important, especially in today’s busy world, to be on the lookout for what our task is for God’s kingdom, because we do not want to miss it.

Our tasks from the Lord give us purpose, fulfillment, and alignment. Each of these things have been under attack by the enemy, who does not want people to know who they are through Jesus Christ. He does not want people to feel fulfilled, have purpose, or be in alignment for God’s kingdom. He wants people to feel useless, incomplete, and lost so that they fill their lives with meaningless ventures that continually stack on top of them and become heavy.

The ant can lift objects much heavier than they are, because they know their purpose for their “kingdom”. When we have God in our lives, we can carry much more than we ever anticipated. No task for the kingdom is too small or too big.