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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.
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