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So, so far we've seen the ant, the locust, and the spider as examples of good workers. Now, whenever I read this verse Proverbs 30 verse 28, the spider taketh hold with her hands and is in king's palaces. I've heard people kind of interpret this verse in different ways. It's kind of a cryptic verse. But I'll tell you what I always think of when I read this verse. How working hard actually takes you into a lot of really cool places. You get to go interesting places if you work hard. See the spider taketh hold with her hands referring to the work that the spider does. So the spider works hard and as a result it dwells in king's palaces. Even the fanciest home or the fanciest palace will have a spider web up in the corner. You'll see it no matter how wealthy they are, right? It gets in there and it builds the web. And I was thinking about in my life through various jobs that I've had, the cool places that I've gotten to go. And I thought about how when I used to work on alarm systems in residential homes, how I went into some of the wealthiest fanciest homes imaginable. I remember we would do jobs in Napa, California, the wine country. And we'd go in there and I mean some of these neighborhoods were so mind-blowing I didn't even know that such a neighborhood could exist. Because I've seen fancy houses. I've seen mansions and nice places. But I mean you'd go into some of these neighborhoods and I mean the houses were literally like castles. They had like a drawbridge and I'm not even joking. I literally saw a house that looked like a castle and it had a drawbridge. And I mean other houses looked like these jungle fortresses. They were made out of like these logs and they had like a wood greenery jungle look with plants growing all over it. Just these exotic, it almost looked like an amusement park or something. This neighborhood. Just the super fancy ridiculously expensive just multi-million dollar homes. Now here's the thing. I'm never going to own a home like that. I don't have a desire to own a home like that. You know I wouldn't spend my money on such vanity if I had that kind of money. But I'll tell you what it was cool to go there for one day and to work in that house. You see fancy things that you own after a while you get bored with them anyway. You know I remember I had a good friend when I was in high school and his parents were very wealthy and they lived in a mansion. And I remember the first time I went to his house I was just mind blown by this mansion they lived in. And the second time it still blew me away. But after I'd been to his house three, four, five, six times it got to be where it's just this is Ryan's house and you didn't really think anything of it. You didn't really, it didn't knock your socks off like it used to. So spending your life seeking after wealth and riches and money so that you can live in a house with turrets and a drawbridge you know is a waste of your life. The Bible says labor not to be rich. The Bible says they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after they've erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But I will say this even though I don't want to live in a palace or anything like that I don't think that that's the the desire of any godly Christian. It's still cool to get to visit places like that. And I enjoyed working in these fancy homes. You know I got to have the best of both worlds. I'm living a life that matters where I'm serving the Lord and I'm having children and I'm raising them and I'm having my priorities in the right place. But yet I got to enjoy the palace as well. I got to be in the king's palace. I was like the spider taking hold of my hands. You know working on that alarm system up in the corner somewhere of that house just getting to enjoy it. But not only that you know I've I've done fire alarm systems in art museums and in other just interesting places. I've traveled for business. You know sometimes work will send you on business. Who here has an example of cool places that you've gone in the course of work? Where's a cool where where did you get to go? The redwood forest Botswana. Yeah that's true. I got to go there in the course of my work too. That was pretty cool. Who else got something? Yeah. Beverly Hills. Wow. Okay. So he's a pool service man. He's going to houses that have an an airport in the backyard. Yeah all the plant life and everything. Yeah and I mean in the back. Inside a nuclear reactor. Hey let's get the Geiger counter on him before we leave to make sure he's not spreading any radioactivity. But the but the point is that you know you get to go cool places with your job. A lot of jobs you end up getting to see things and experience things and go do cool things and see cool places. And I you know I've been interesting places. You guys have been interesting places. And look these aren't some of our jobs that took us there weren't even the most glamorous job imaginable. You know being an electrician being a pool man being a carpenter whatever. But we get to go cool places. You know God blesses you when you work hard with some good experiences. You get to see some neat things and other people even who have a job that doesn't really take them anywhere. Let's say they're just in a cubicle in front of a computer. But a lot of those companies will have like an employee getaway or vacation. I think brother Fairchild's job is like that right. They get to go somewhere once a year for morale boost or whatever. And not only that but if you work hard you know you can actually make a little money and go on vacation with with some of the money that you made. The point is you know working hard it brings a lot of blessings and it brings a lot of experiences to you that you don't get by sitting around and being lazy. You know the people who sit around and they're lazy and they don't work hard they miss out on all these great experiences and on all these cool things that life has to offer. And again I'm not talking about being rich. I don't think it's right for us to seek to be rich. But I'm just talking about going to work, putting in a good day's work, working with your hands, doing a good job, being like the ant or the locust or the spider and getting something done and God's going to reward you for that. You're going to have a house to live in, a modest home. You're going to have food to eat. You're going to be able to support your family. It feels good to be able to do that and also God will bring you to interesting places and you get to experience things and do fun things that you'd like to do.