What are your favorites, former procrastinators? Favorite ice cream? Favorite sport? Favorite season? What is your favorite Bible verse? Some Bible passages are dear to us because they’ve comforted us through hard times, helped us make decisions, provided insight we needed. They tend to pop right in our minds when someone asks for a verse….
Former procrastinators, does delay affect your following the example in Proverbs 31:10-31? Let’s look at only a few things: In what way can you do your husband good this week?
Proverbs, former procrastinators, makes it clear that the choices we make are part of a cause-and-effect process that we live with. We’d like to be the exception, but the book makes it clear how things usually work out. We should not expect to be spared consequences. Without them, we may not even recognize we chose…
The sluggard, former procrastinators, retreats into a holding pattern he prefers over what he ought to be doing. He has a favorite way to hide out from work. Sleep is a common choice, but there are others. “As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.” Proverbs 26:14 This is…
Here, former procrastinators, we have a vivid and sad picture. “I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense, and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw and considered it; I looked…
“That’s just an excuse,” we former procrastinators say of others. But do we recognize when we use excuses ourselves especially when we think risk is involved? “The sluggard says, ‘There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets.” Proverbs 22:13 “The sluggard says, ‘There is a lion in the road! There is…
Let’s return to an earlier question, former procrastinators: What are you doing about it? “The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.” Proverbs 21:25-26 The sluggard is obsessed with what he does not have….
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
. . . you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
Colossians 3:9-10