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Ants Go Marching One by One & One Stops to Pray to Heaven (An Exhortation)

Good afternoon. Before we begin. Short story. You know my 2 kids, they like to watch YouTube for Kids. (I know bad parenting, right? Give us parents some slack sometimes). Usually what I'll do I cast it on TV using the smartphone, so that they can watch it on TV instead of my phone.

Few weeks ago when we were watching while having our meal, the clips that time were from Super Simple Songs (bunch of kids songs, nursery rhymes and original music, animation pretty good, professionally done). And one of the clips that came up was from a song called "The ants go marching". You know how the song goes... The song also teaches kids how to count. It will say one by one, two by two, etc. and they would show ants marching accordingly to those respective numbers. When the song hits seven, the lyrics went: "The little one stops to pray to heaven..." When my 5 year-old daughter heard the words, she laughed at me and said "Ants pray to heaven??" And asked me "Dad, do ants really pray to heaven?" I told her "You'll never know, perhaps they do. We don't speak ant, we dont understand Ant language. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But one thing I know, in the Bible, in the book of Daniel, I said to my daughter, there's a passage wherein it says "All the birds in the air, bless the Lord. All the fish in the sea, bless the Lord." There is a litany of all the creation of God blessing and praising God repeatedly like praying the rosary and totally biblical. It was a light hearted moment for us, but what seems whimsical made me realize something, "If--biblically--the animals, nature and all of God's creation are invited to praise the Lord, how much more will our heavenly Father long for the praise and worship of His people?

Something to chew on in our disposition this moment as we begin to worship our Lord.

Exhortation 2018-3-4

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