"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest" - Proverbs 6:6-8 (NIV). 

Farmers and herds men are familiar with the pain of draught. Depending on where one is located the cyclical nature of weather patterns is bound to yield seasons of scarcity. Quietly the rains cease to fall as before. The greenness dissapears for clay burnt fields interpassed with sand dunes.

Experiencing a draught can be very disturbing particularly to one who was not prepared. Normally, in life, when blessed with the times of bounty, everyone should consume with anticipation of also scarce seasons on the horizons. It is important to save for such, which unfortunately is not universal. To go through a draught without any well or food granary in sight, can be very testing.

When one has not prepared for a draught it can leave behind the fields littered with yawning waste. You may scrape through but how. Next time you experience a bounty season do eat knowing there are also seasons of scarcity, and the one who survives, prepares well in advance.

Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, today I thank you for those seasons of bounty and I pray you help me use them well to save for scarce times as well, this I pray in Jesus's name.