Going to The Ant
"As the door turns on his hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed." - Proverbs 26:14
This proverb, apart from making me laugh because the image it conjures is really funny, reminds me of a question Andy asked us at his last house party when we were all sitting on the settee chatting the night away - "Why do you get out of bed?"
I think I get out of bed just because I have to, but I would like to think the world would have been made a little different just because I'd got out of bed. I can't waste the day away, because if I do, I might as well stay in bed (which I have done before). I can remember countless unproductive days lying on my bed in my second year surfing the internet for goodness knows what, becoming a sort of fat green capsicum. It's a good thing I don't have internet now, but there are many more ways I can be more productive in what I do.
I remember countless report cards saying, "Easily distracted during class" and long periods of dreaming away and automatically switching off during lectures. I remember frantic last-minute rushes to hand in essays and assignments. Even now, I only work hard for the things I like doing, like preparing for cell group or thinking of things to do with cell group, and push everything else aside to the last minute (including coursework and even eating, sometimes). What can I do to change this laziness? It sometimes seems as though I will never change. But worse things in me have been changed by God before, and I think He will change this too. Ripping some verses off a website linked by the side, the cure for laziness is:-
In all things, whatsoever you do:
1. Do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31)
2. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus (Colossians 3:17)
3. With all your heart as though working for the Lord (Colossians 3: 23)
I really want to be diligent right now and endeavour in myself to do everything with all my heart, rather than learn the hard way through bad results or discipline or knowing that I could have done better. This is a lesson I have to learn, and I don't want to be learning it all my life through regrets and pain. Teach me to be disciplined, to do what I say I will, and to do my best in everything.
This proverb, apart from making me laugh because the image it conjures is really funny, reminds me of a question Andy asked us at his last house party when we were all sitting on the settee chatting the night away - "Why do you get out of bed?"
I think I get out of bed just because I have to, but I would like to think the world would have been made a little different just because I'd got out of bed. I can't waste the day away, because if I do, I might as well stay in bed (which I have done before). I can remember countless unproductive days lying on my bed in my second year surfing the internet for goodness knows what, becoming a sort of fat green capsicum. It's a good thing I don't have internet now, but there are many more ways I can be more productive in what I do.
I remember countless report cards saying, "Easily distracted during class" and long periods of dreaming away and automatically switching off during lectures. I remember frantic last-minute rushes to hand in essays and assignments. Even now, I only work hard for the things I like doing, like preparing for cell group or thinking of things to do with cell group, and push everything else aside to the last minute (including coursework and even eating, sometimes). What can I do to change this laziness? It sometimes seems as though I will never change. But worse things in me have been changed by God before, and I think He will change this too. Ripping some verses off a website linked by the side, the cure for laziness is:-
In all things, whatsoever you do:
1. Do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31)
2. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus (Colossians 3:17)
3. With all your heart as though working for the Lord (Colossians 3: 23)
I really want to be diligent right now and endeavour in myself to do everything with all my heart, rather than learn the hard way through bad results or discipline or knowing that I could have done better. This is a lesson I have to learn, and I don't want to be learning it all my life through regrets and pain. Teach me to be disciplined, to do what I say I will, and to do my best in everything.
1 Comments:
I get out of bed because I honestly think I can make a difference. I know it sounds like idealistic rubbish for a utopian world, but alas, I am an idealistic man stuck in an unidealistic world.
I help out at a church and a young mans Bible study, we are constantly asking people why they are there. Same thing for Church. Are you here to be encouraged? Great? Are you here to give? That is good too. But mostly I want to know that people are there because they are expecting God to work, they are expecting to meet with God, they are expecting to become more like His Son.
That is why I get up, I honestly believe God will do something with my life today. If I didn't believe this, I wouldn't get up. I would probably be a perpetual drunk or wondering philosopher looking for the deeper meanings of life. Jesus came to give us Life and Life abundantly, sounds like something worth getting up for...
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