Friday!

Proverbs!

The lazy person claims, "There's a lion on the road! 

Yes, I'm sure theres a lion out there!"

As a door swings back and forth on its hinges, so the lazy person turns over in bed. 

Lazy people take food in their hand but don't even lift it to their mouth. 

Lazy people consider themselves smarter than seven wise counselors.

Proverbs 26:13-16 NLT

Wow!

Hezekiah is the writer of these proverbs and doesn't hold back! 

What's our rule with Proverbs? These are not weapons to wield against others but insights into our own hearts and minds...and I can see myself in each of these categories of lazy. 

None of these is about rest, restoration, or inferring that all we should do is work, or keep "busy", they seem to be about the way I justify myself, my choices, and culminate in that last one about not listening. Not really. 

I hear the words of the wise but don't really listen. 

And so these are an extension of the first 12 verses in this chapter about being wise in my own eyes. 

If nothing else in 2023 I want to get wiser, listen to others perspectives, really listen to the wise people in my life, and let wisdom change me. 

What about you?

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