How long, you sluggard?

Proverbs 6:4-11:

Permit no sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare,
and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
observe its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
overseer, or ruler,
yet it prepares its food in the summer;
it gathers at the harvest what it will eat.
How long, you sluggard, will you lie there?
When will you rise from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to relax,
and your poverty will come like a robber,
and your need like an armed man.

Okay, okay, I’m a gittin’!

1. What happened in the text?
2. What do I learn about God?
3. What should I do about it?

1. What happened in the text?
   The text instructs us not to wait, but to escape from debt, and to work hard without sluggishly resting.
2. What do I learn about God?
   He wants us to do the right thing quickly.
   He made us for work.
3. What should I do about it?
   I do need to work more diligently. I’ve been a little demoralized by the project that’s going on currently, and as a result, I haven’t been working hard enough. Start that on Monday.