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Scripture: Proverbs 6:6-11
Song: We’ll Work Till Jesus Comes
Sloth is sin. You may have a lazy streak. If so, you need to change your stripe. Sloth is sin. Even the ant knows better. Our colony could learn from his for we have more than one variety of sloth:
Procrastinator—He always has a first class blueprint but never breaks ground. He’s often a busy man, just busy with the wrong things so that his good intentions go unattended.
Materialist—He works hard to acquire things and quality things. But he’s slothful when it comes to spiritual investments. He’s always building bigger barns while his soul is up on blocks.
Hobbyist—The respectable sluggard. The product of a wealthy society where there’s ample resources for trivial pursuits. The hobbyist finds time and money for fishing and hunting, golfing and little league. But ask him to work in the kingdom and he’ll tell you how he’d like to, but… .
Rationalizer—He has a doctor’s excuse for why he wasn’t at work. Something urgent always comes up. The only thing you can plan on with the rationalizer is that your plans will fall through.
But he’ll have a good excuse.
At the Judgment, I wonder if the little ant won’t take the witness stand after the people of Nineveh and the Queen of Sheba and condemn the idleness of our generation. God has given you today. Will you prove yourself worthy of His gift?
Jason Moore
