Ecclesiastes 10
KEEPING UP

I remember the days when I was too busy to mow my lawn. A few weeks later, it was no longer a 45-minute job, but would take three hours because the grass was so long. I had a similar experience with some rot in a window frame. It was a low priority, but while I left it, the rot got worse and worse until it was a major job to fix up.

The preacher said, “Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.” (Ecclesiastes 10 v 18 ESV). If we don’t want to keep up with the maintenance on our houses, then at some stage we are going to have bigger problems and they are going to be a major job to fix.

It’s the same in our spiritual lives. When we let small sins creep into our lives, they quickly take root and can take a lifetime to weed out. If we miss our Bible readings for a day or two (or more), it’s very hard to catch up. When we lose a habit of prayer, we will never make up for all that lost time we could have been walking with God.

Let’s not let our lives – and especially our spiritual lives – fall apart through sloth. Let’s do what needs to be done when it should be done. Let’s keep right with God.

May our lives be pleasing to our Lord this week.

With love in our Lord
Robert

With love in our Lord,
Robert

The Story of the Song Of Solomon

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