Proverbs 24:30-34

The lazy person, the slothful person is a drifter. He generally lets nature take its course. God built it into nature to degenerate. Nature must be maintained by efforts of man. When things are let go in nature, almost all of them degenerate. They do not get better.

We are part of that which is natural. If we do not make effort to achieve that which is permanent, what is going to happen? We are going to degenerate, just like the rest of nature. The mind will degenerate, the body, the health, will degenerate. Psychologically, we will degenerate.

The drifter, the slothful man, has no defense against the natural order of things. He is at the whim of whatever is happening. He will degenerate. So, in order to protect oneself from that, the eye has to be single. We have to seek those things that do not change. We have to seek the Kingdom of God, it is the number one priority in life. We have to bend our efforts in that direction.

Proverbs 24:30-34

Proverbs 24:30-34 shows the result of slothfulness. It does not matter whether the result that is being pictured happens in an economic area, an artistic area, a marital area, or a moral area. The principle that is being taught there covers it. The principle is that is the result of irresponsibility will be poverty—economic poverty, moral poverty, artistic poverty, or marital poverty. Like it or not, it is very likely the person who is in this kind of situation will feel that he has been a victim.

Proverbs 24:30

A person who is lazy does not have any understanding. He does not know what is going on.