Thought 235
Laziness
God has a plan for your life, but that plan
includes valleys of shadow and mountains of revelation: hard times and easier
times. Your human nature desires to find an easy way out of the hard times. Thus,
laziness is a temptation and it can become a habit.
“He becometh poor
that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.He
that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a
son that causeth shame. . . .The labour of the righteous
tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.” Proverbs 10:4-5,9
KJV
The word of God says
that if we deal with a slack had we will become poor, but the hand of the
diligent prospers. The same Word says that all hard work brings a profit, but
mere talk leads to poverty (Proverbs 14:23). Why did America become so rich as
a growing nation? Because the people recognized that they were to work as unto
God and not as unto man (Col. 3:23) and as they worked extremely hard, they
reaped abundant harvests. This doesn’t mean that they never had crop failures
or tight times, but God blessed their diligence and honor of His Word.
When greed and selfishness
have snatched the heart of a man, he is in trouble whether he has one dollar or
one million. It not only becomes hard for him to surrender all and come into
eternal life through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but he opens himself up to
get rich quick schemes, and the false philosophy of the “easy” life.
Do you deal with laziness habitual laziness in
any area? Ask the Holy Spirit to show you if you do by taking few moments of
prayer and silence to listen for His small, still voice.
When tempted Remember that
“There hath no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to
be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way
to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
If you
are stuck in a habitual pattern Remember
that
“For though we walk in the flesh, we
do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ;” 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 KJV
