FEATURED M A Y RADIO MESSAGE SCRIPTURAL LESSONS FROM NATURE earning from locusts
by Dr. Walter L. W ilson
Q. Dr. Wilson, in deeding with the four things (in verses 24 and 27 of Proverbs 30) that are little but exceeding wise, we have come now to a “close-up ” of the locusts. We know that your discus sion of this w ill be as the other two — interesting! A. The locusts are known, of course, all over the world and in view of the privileges of life, we need direction, someone to guide us, someone to teach us. So the verse says “The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.” Now we can learn some lessons from the little locust, and one of them is, they are not content to sit still and starve. There are lots of folk who make no effort to improve themselves or their surroundings, and if you give them money they do not use it to good ad vantage — it is soon gone. Often the beggar on the street will take the mon ey given him by passers-by and use it either for beer or narcotics — this he did not learn from the locusts.
The locusts were looking for something that was worth while and they go forth all of them by bands to find pastures, something that will enable them to grow and that is good for them, so they are not content to sit still and starve. They have no king but they look up to those of other species that are of like mind with them and so they go forth by bands. You do not find locusts and cows going together. God wants us to learn to find those of like mind, who have the same nature as we do — other Christians. And we are not to find reasons for staying away from them, rather we are to find reasons for getting with them. As we read in Zechariah, “They served the Lord with one shoulder,” all pushing together as men do when heaving a railroad track into place or as a team in playing baseball. They work together with one shoulder. So He is telling us to look at the locusts and note the way they do — they find a pasture together, and when they have eaten that up, 6
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