Don’t Be a Sluggard

Don’t Be a Sluggard

Proverbs 6:6 reads, “Go to the ant, you sluggard!”   What exactly is a sluggard? Robert Hicks says, “Feeling we’re entitled to things without being willing to do the necessary labor to obtain them makes us a society of sluggards.”  ...
Don’t Be a Sluggard

Are You Becoming More Gracious?

2 Peter 3:18 reads, “Grow in grace.”   Every day you live you’ll be presented with opportunities to “grow in grace.” And you must always be open and receptive to them. A grandmother celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary shared the...
Don’t Be a Sluggard

Show Them God’s Love

Luke 7:44 reads, “Do you see this woman?”   Luke writes: “Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind...
Don’t Be a Sluggard

Be Grateful for God’s Grace

Ephesians 3:8 reads, “To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given.”   One day the Pharisees caught a woman in the act of adultery. The law of Moses was clear; she must be stoned. And the Pharisees were ready to do it. This...
Don’t Be a Sluggard

Who Knows? God Knows!

Deuteronomy 29:29 reads, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God.”   The Bible says: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). That Scripture is easy to quote but hard to live by,...