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Idle hands - a Christian perspective
Laziness is not a godly trait. This proverb warns that laziness and idleness will result in disaster as your life (and your house) fall apart around you.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2010:18&version=NIV
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how do i overcome help…
@woo If you’re not doing so already, I’d start with some daily discipline. It’s amazing how practicing self-discipline in one area affects other areas of your life.
I’d recommend starting to read the Bible and praying every day. Doing those two things (even if it’s just one verse and one minute of prayer a day) will transform your life over time.
My wife and I are part of a huge ministry here in the panhandle of FL. I have been lazy my whole life which is why I haven’t been able to get anything out of any education I received, or haven’t been able to hold down any job in the past. It was a horrible pattern in my life that God had to break in me. I could see that many people that we have met in our lives from family to friends in the world, then in the church after salvation saw that pattern and were not happy with me because of it. Which is why I believe that favor was not there for me earlier in life for a good income, and why I have been broke, busted, and disgusted for sooo long. I had to go through what many people call the “College of Hard Knocks” to wake up and see the realities of my pattern of laziness and lack of discretion in many situations. Jesus was real clear about this “If you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?” “He who is faithful in the least is also faithful in the much.” Well if you are not faithful, but lazy in what is another man’s (Boss), and you are not faithful in the least, how can you be faithful in much?” It ain’t happening. You will contine to be broke, busted and disgusted if the pattern is not repented of. That’s not a pattern I want to have the rest of my life. Sorry you can’t raise a family on that pattern. You will wind up in the poor house otherwise. I repented this morning to see this situation that my wife and I have found ourselves in for three years turn around. Thank the Lord for His mercy. They are new every morning. He is faithful when we are faithless. He cannot deny Himself!” The pattern doesn’t have to continue. It can be stopped with the help of the Holy Spirit.
I also pray to God that our future children will start out a lot better then we did, and will learn diligence vs. laziness. They will be taught.
The hope. Romans 8:1 “There is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” We are all new creations. God is doing a new thing these days in the body of Christ. Giving people chance after chance to turn their lives around and allow God to work discipline into their lives for those who don’t have it.
today i decided to reAD SCRIPTURES ON laziness and pray about it. i need to repent and change. it won’t happen over night but we can try everyday. God’s grace, we don’t understand it but that is just how awesome he is.