Get Up and Get After It

Men's Morning Devotional · Sep 15, 2026 · 6m · transcript

Who has to motivate you? Your wife? Your boss? Your pastor on Sunday? A doctor who finally scares you into taking care of yourself? Solomon has a different idea. He says go look at the ant.

In Proverbs 6, Solomon skips the great warriors and successful leaders and points to the smallest teacher imaginable. Nobody wakes an ant up in the morning. Nobody stands over it saying, "Come on, we've got work to do." It has no commander, no overseer, no ruler. It just gets up, sees the opportunity, and goes to work. That's a picture of self-discipline, and every man needs it. At some point, a man has to…