I went by the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of one lacking sense. 

Thistles had come up everywhere, weeds covered the ground, 

and the stone wall was ruined. 

I saw, 

and took it to heart; 

I looked, and received instruction: 

a little sleep, 

a little slumber, 

a little folding 

of the arms to rest, 

and your poverty 

will come like a robber, and your need, 

like a bandit.

Proverbs 24:30-34 CSB

Mmm what do you think?

This Proverb can so easily be turned into a weapon to blame and shame those who are poor, whose business may fail, whose assignment didn't make the grade... but if the field, vineyard & stone wall are pictures of some part of who we are, parts that need cultivating like a field, tending like a vineyard, maintaing and building up, reinforcing like a stone wall, then it's telling us it's the little choices, the small things that we let go, that lead to disaster that arrives in a hurry.

What are my small choices?

Things that I easily justify?

I can watch that, drink that, take that, play that...I can handle it, stop any time...

I can skip church, good people, prayer, thankfulness...I can make it up later...

I can justify in my mind just about anything. 

This proverb is a warning about the small choices that lead us to disaster, and reminds us that small steps of cultivating, tending, reinforcing, lead to blessing.

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