Be Still And Know

Proverbs 26:14 'As a door swings back and forth on its hinges, so the lazy person turns over in bed.'  The writer of Proverbs has a great deal to say about laziness. He is terrified of it, viewing it as the surest route to poverty. In a society without a welfare state, that could easily spell starvation and even death. Fighting the war with laziness starts at the very beginning of the day when we decide to stop turning over in bed and actually get up! I will leave you to work out whether this particularly relates to you and your life, but the point is clear. Laziness will try to lure us into its trap if it possibly can. A Latin proverb says: “As worms breed in a pool of stagnant water, so evil thoughts breed in the mind of the idle.” I don’t believe that there is anything wrong with times of relaxation. But if life is devoid of purpose, without a clear sense of direction, evil thoughts can take root and breed. Charles Spurgeon, the famous Baptist preacher, wrote: “Some temptations come to the