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Squirrels Are Not in the Bible — but Storing Up Is, Both Ways

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  • Squirrels are not in the Bible, but storing food for later is something Scripture both commends and warns about.
  • Proverbs 6:6-8 and 30:25 praise the ant for storing provisions in summer, and Joseph’s storehouses save a nation (Genesis 41:35-36).
  • The rich fool of Luke 12:16-21 does what looks like the same thing and is condemned for it.
  • The difference is in the pronouns. His speech contains no labourer, no neighbour and no poor man — only himself — and the harvest came from ground that yielded.
  • Luke 12:21 names it: storing up for oneself while not being rich towards God. The passage about not worrying follows immediately.

Squirrels are not in the Bible. But the thing squirrels are famous for — putting food away for later — is something Scripture both commends and warns about, in passages a few pages apart. Holding those two together is the whole of the subject. The ant, commended Proverbs sends the lazy reader to an insect: 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…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Proverbs 6:6-8; 30:25; Genesis 41:35-36; 40:8; Luke 12:16-21, 22-31; Daniel 2:27-28).

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