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Don’t be lazy. Let’s go!
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Money, Work on January 20, 2011
I like how KJV describes the lazy in Proverbs 20:4. He says, “The sluggard will not plow…” Not only does he describe the lazy as slow, using the word sluggard, but he says what he “will not do”. This tell me it wasn’t anything else but his own will that kept him from working hard.
That tells me that no excuse is ever good enough for being lazy, for it is the persons own will that will push them to move or cause them to sit still. No cold weather. No person. No obstacle. No difficult task will keep me from moving if my will to move is stronger.
So what happens to the person whose will won’t let them do the work that is necessary in the season set before them. The same verse gives their end, “…therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.”
Plain and simple. If your will is to be lazy and do nothing in the time given to you, then you will have nothing and have to beg in the time of other’s harvest.
What will you do?
Be wise.
Labour not to be rich….This is so counter-cultural.
My this is totally contrary to what the rest of the world teaches. Proverbs 23:4 says, “Labour not to be rich:…” , but everything I have been instructed from traditional education to everyday worldly knowledge says the complete opposite, or it is implied that we must work our hardest to become rich. This will give you all the opportunities to have what rich people have. Big houses, big cars, fancy vacations, etc.
I like the way the English Standard Version (ESV) reads,“Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist [abstain].”
The word toil, makes it plain for me, because it means to strive, and it gives me a sense of a frustrating work that is done. Now I don’t believe that what this passage is teaching is not to work hard, or that all work should be peaceful, but I think the later part of the phrase is where we are to bring caution. The motive of our labour, work, or toiling is not to be an end goal of wealth, but we are to work with a larger purpose. Now don’t be shocked when working in your purpose brings you wealth, but on the other hand don’t be upset if it doesn’t afford you the opportunity to have the latest car and biggest house in your family. What God has for you…………..
Is for you.
Be wise.
A Proverb a Day: Proverbs 28:27 How to go through life without lack.
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, Inspirational, Money, Work on November 28, 2010
Most people I know have a desire to have everything, and not to lack a thing. Life’s pursuit of happiness is woven in the lives of Americans across the country. We go to work to earn enough to take care of our families with little thought of anyone else. I don’t think it’s on purpose, but the poor get ignored primarily out of the indifference of we people who have. The have-not’s get ignored. We’re to worried about paying our bills, making sure our cars are paid for, and our homes have heat, to worry about our neighbor in destitute states.
Since we’ve been taught so much by the American culture that we need to strap up our boots, and get to work to earn a living to take care of our families, that is what we have done. It’s not a bad lesson to learn, but I would say it is incomplete. Along with learning the necessity of work and responsibility we should have been taught the necessity of giving.
Proverbs 28:27 completes our lesson for a successful life. A life without lack. “He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.” KJV This is a lesson that every person needs to learn and practice. This is the way to go through life without lacking anything. Give to the poor and don’t close your eyes to poverty.
Be wise.
A Proverb a Day: Proverbs 22:8 Have you sown any seeds of injustice?
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Education, Inspirational, Money, Obama, Political on November 22, 2010
“Those who plant seeds of injustice will harvest disaster, and their reign of terror will end.” Proverbs 22:8 NLT
These words leaped off the page at me early this morning and I couldn’t help but think of all the injustices that I’ve heard about in history books of times past and have seen even till this day.
Then I thought about the word, “Those”. It’s a word that is inclusive of everyone and anybody. “Those”, could describe the persons that terrorized the Indians of the Oregon Trail. Or those who terrorized my ancestors for years with in the American slave trade. It could describe how the Rich lorded over the poor and increasingly pushed them lower and lower with unfair laws and regulations, or those who in business cheated persons out of their wealth in order to gain more for their selfish gain.
I could go on and on about the injustices of the Jim Crow Laws, discrimination, wether it be racial or sexual, or the new one they’re using, age. But it is easy to point the finger at those that hs done us harm, but what seeds of injustice have we sown in the lives of others? Who did you cheat? Who did you discriminate against? Who have you harmed, even if it was just with words.
The seeds that we have sown, we will surely reap. Galatians 6, and this Proverb 22:8 says we will “harvest”, or reap disaster. We shall reap a horrible end, if we sow the seeds of injustice.
So it is pleasing to know that the reign of terror will end, if you’re the victim, but if you’re the one who has sown these seeds, then be on guard, your end shall come. We may not know the day or the hour, but the Proverb says it will end.
Has America sown too many seeds of injustice as a country to escape it?
Have the wicked investors like Madoff sown too many seeds of injustice to escape it?
Have you sown any seeds to injustice?
Be wise.
A Poverb a Day: Proverbs 8:10-11 Nothing you desire can be compared with it.
Posted by Lance Lawshe in Bible, Crime, Education, Family, Inspirational, Money on November 8, 2010
“Choose my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge over pure gold. For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies. Nothing you desire can be compared with it.” -Proverbs 8:10-11
If I could get all the youth of the world to understand these words and apply them, education would not be an issue. Bullying would cease to be a national discussion topic, and the crisis of our urban communities would slowly vanish away.
The reason I speak about the youth, and I mean ages 6-12, is because people are constantly telling me to write off any body that is a teenager or older, because they are a lost cause. I don’t want to believe it, and I am truly an optimist, but the more I live and the more I see, the more those nay-sayers are becoming true.
So what are we to do? What are we to say to our youth or better yet, everyone? I believe we need to encourage all who live and breath to read and understand, and then apply these words of wisdom. Why? Because all the people I know are tying to obtain a piece of what’s in verse 18.
Verse 18 says, “Unending riches, honor, wealth, and justice are mine to distribute.”
Be wise.
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