Proverbs 12: 27-28
27 Lazy people don’t even cook the game they catch, but the diligent make use of everything they find.
I love to cook. I can’t imagine going to all the trouble of going to the grocery store, buying all the ingredients for a great recipe and then not cooking them. Oh, but I’ve done it.
Lazy people waste the very thing they need to survive.
They just don’t care to take care of themselves. They refuse to lift a finger to work. Not their responsibility. It’s always someone else’s job.
It has to do with our souls as well. Are we taking care of ours or just going through the motions; pretending to do just that? We grow indifferent and complacent in taking care of our souls.
Being diligent, means we are dong everything God has asked us and not leaving anything undone. Diligence equals not giving up. Diligence requires effort and then some.
28 The way of the godly leads to life, that path does not lead to death.
It is a path I want to be on. It doesn’t say anything about the road being easy to walk; in fact it doesn’t specify a thing about the road except where it leads. LIFE!
This verse very clearly states whom. The godly. What is it to live a godly life? The best case I’ve got for you on a godly life is Jesus. Love. Love. Love like He did. No greater role model to follow than Him.
Follow the path He took, be diligent in leading a godly life and the experience will be better than anything you can hope for or imagine.
In Matthew 7.14 “But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Be one of the few. It will be well worth it.