First of all, get this right. This isn’t about 3 motivations to allow you to be lazy.
Forget that. People find enough reasons to lounge around with the remote in their hand and a cold glass at their fingertips.
Here’s what happens when we choose to snooze while there’s work to be done.
Proverbs 24:30-34 reveals the dire situation that results.
“I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.”
That’s a long passage, so let’s break it down to reveal the sad things we find in the field of the sluggard, or as we would say today, the lazy man.
1. It’s overgrown with thorns. A life overgrown with thorns is difficult to maneuver. Everything cuts us, and we want to blame everyone but the person responsible.
2. Nettles cover the ground. Nettles are the bad things that infiltrate our days. Wild parties, inappropriate websites, and foul language. No one wants to be around us.
3. Our stone walls are broken down. We’ve lost our morals, our resolve, our line in the sand that we refuse to cross. We are up for anything, even when it’s the bad thing.
No one intends to fall into poverty. Not a person alive has said, “I’m tired of a good life. I’ll be desperately poor for a change.” Poverty sneaks up on us with “a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.”
Now’s our time to wake up, to get motivated, and to sidestep poverty’s cruel noose. Now’s our chance to kick out the armed man that would steal all the good from our lives.
Wake up, wake up! God’s time to work is now.
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