SLACKER?

How long will you slumber, O sluggard? —Proverbs 6:9

While studying the book of Proverbs in my small-group Bible study, our leader suggested that we change the description of a lazy person from a sluggard to a slacker (6:6,9). Ah, now he was speaking my lingo. I immediately started thinking of all the people I consider to be slackers.
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Like the men and women who fail to teach and discipline their children. Or that guy who refuses to help around the house. Or those teenagers who neglect their studies and play Internet games day and night.

If we’re honest, we’re all susceptible to this. What about being a “prayer slacker” (1 Thess. 5:17-18), or a “Bible-reading slacker” (Ps. 119:103; 2 Tim. 3:16-17), or a “non-exercising-of-our-spiritual-gift slacker” (Rom. 12:4-8), or a “non-witnessing slacker”? (Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 1:8).

If we are not doing what we know God wants us to do, we are certainly spiritual slackers. In fact, when we refuse to obey God, we are sinning.

Listen to these challenging and convicting words from the book of James: “It is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it” (4:17 NLT). Let’s not be spiritual slackers.

When we know what God wants us to do,
But then we refuse to obey,
We’re ignoring the voice of the Lord,
And sinfully choosing our way. —Sper

We may make excuses for not obeying God, but He still calls it disobedience. (by Agnes Domingo-Arbon)

We are Privileged

God has empowered us to live life fully with meaning and purpose. To dream big, and make all possibilities to realize our dreams. Serve at your best, serve without limits and increase your number.

It is our privilege as children of God that all the resources are all around us. We just have to acknowledge that they exist and God has provided us everything that we need. He has already planned each of us to be prosperous. Our task is to plan how to enrich ourselves and share these abundance to serve and glorify God.

Providence is already in us. Use it well, use it more to serve and Glorify God's kingdom.

Prosper your mind! Serve and Glorify God!

Prayer:
We acknowledge your healing power, O God, Empower us more and increase our service by sharing your healing power and make others realize your Greatness.