Because the Bible says so!!
I found a nice little passage that gave me a swift kick in the rear on a few things in my life. I love how practical the Bible really is. The deeper you dig, the more you find.
Proverbs 24:30-34
I passed by the field of the sluggard and by the vineyard of the man lacking sense, and behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles; its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
When I saw, I reflected upon it; I looked, and received instruction. “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,” Then your poverty will come as a robber and your want like an armed man.
What it spoke to me
- Fools don’t maintain stuff. The wise do.
- Laziness causes you to be lacking in areas of your life. Those who are lazy rarely see this resulting effect of their actions coming. It catches them off guard and they wonder how and why it happened.
Anyone else get any revelation from this passage?
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Yes. I’m going out to fix my gutter right now.
@Cory
Good for you!! You want to come fix mine when you are done?
It does make me think about the international finance problems and how the governments has not done their job in keeping an eye on how much lending the banks are doing and how people can pay back their debts. Now it is effecting everyone with recessions, falling house prices and many people with debts they cannot pay off.