Posted on 11/19/2022 12:25:59 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger” (Proverbs 19:15).
“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep,” laziness breeds laziness. The lazier you are, the lazier you are going to be. The best way to conquer laziness is to jog a couple of miles, or walk if you can’t run. People sleep, and then they want more sleep, and the body is never satisfied. The worst thing are those buttons on your clock or phone that will give you another fifteen minutes. When the alarm goes off, get up!
People that oversleep often get headaches, and they are easier to get sick. They get sluggish and groggy throughout the day. You don’t need Geritol, it’s not tired blood, it is just a bad attitude. Another thing that tends to make us tired and sleepy is over-eating.
“. . . and an idle soul shall suffer hunger,” not only from the physical standpoint, but Jesus said, “Bless are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6). When a man gets lazy in regards to his soul, he will starve spiritually.
Paul wrote to the Christian, “And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing” (I Thessalonians 4:11-12). He teaches that if a man works, he’ll have what he needs.
If a man can work, and won’t work, he should starve: “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat” (II Thessalonians 3:10). Unless we live in America where they actually pay people to be lazy and vote for one particular party of handouts.
They didn’t have welfare back in Bible days, nor do they have it in most of the world. While stationed in the Philippines it was not unusual to see people starving to death in the streets . . . it is only in America that they pay folks to do nothing.
How many Christians have been honest enough to pray this prayer a time or two?
“Almighty God, as I sit here this lovely Sunday morning surrounded by the paper and half listening to one of the preachers over the radio, it has just come to me that I have lied to Thee and to myself.
“I said 1 was not well enough to go to church. That was not true. I would have gone to the office if it had been Monday morning. I would have played golf if it had been Wednesday afternoon. I would have attended my luncheon club if it had met this noon.
“But it was Sunday morning, and “Sunday sickness” seems to cover a multitude of sins.
“God, have mercy on me; I have lied to Thee and to myself. I am not sick; I am lazy. Amen.”
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Laziness is also a result of entitlement mentality, which has thoroughly infected American thinking patterns these days, even within the church.
Evidence of that is the prosperity gospel message that is being so widely embraced by the church.
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