The ant provides her meat in summer and gathers her food in harvest. (Prov 6:8) To provide means she had taken forethought to make sure it is there, available for use. It is there for use in the summer when no other crops are available, for they are growing. There will be no food available until the crops get ripe for harvesting. This means there have to be plans to store and ration some of last year’s harvest until the new harvest is ready; and so on for all harvests.
We can not be sluggards but must be like the ant. We must protect the seed for planting and protect the crops as they grow. We must keep our harvest tools prepared. We must understand there is a constant rate of consumption and a cyclic rate of planting/harvest. We have to match these together properly. We have to be actively aware and plan and be ever vigilant of efficiency and avoidance of waste.
