Are You A Sluggard

Are You A Sluggard "How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? Proverbs 6:9 Have you ever been called a sluggard? We don't hear this term used very much, so I looked up what the dictionary says about a sluggard. It is someone who is lazy or is a slacker. I am sure this would fit the description of most of us, as we all have been guilty of slacking in the things we should have done. We may have slacked in the discipline of our children. We have slacked in not helping around the house, and doing the chores that we needed to do to help our spouse. Most of us have been sluggards even after we accepted Christ into our life, as we have been a prayer sluggard, a Bible reading sluggard, and a witnessing sluggard as we would never witness without being prompted . What about the times we have been a sluggard in not using our God given gifts and talents to encourage others or to witness to them. Have you been a sluggard in not giving of your tithes and returning to others the part that God commands you to give, and which He has so freely given you? Have you been a sluggard in letting the busyness of life, and your selfish desires keep you from really being the ambassador of God that He wants you to be? If you're honest with yourself you will find that you have been a sluggard, and could have done more of the things that God wanted you to do. If you know that you have been deficient in any of these things, do you know that you are a sinner? When you refuse to obey God and His commands you are sinning. Listen to these challenging and convicting words from the book of James: "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins" James 4:17. If the term sluggard defines who you are, change your ways, let God help you to become the person He wants you to be, one that is on fire for God, with no lazy bone in your body. Robert W. Brock My Daily Devotional Volume Seven July 23