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Proverbs chapter 6 verses 6 through 11.

Go to the aunt, oh sluggard, consider her ways and be wise.

Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her

food in harvest.

How long will you lie there, O sluggard?

When will you arise from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a robber and

want like an armed man.

This is a pretty powerful picture in exhortation to work hard.

Using the ant as an illustration, the wisdom of the ant to prepare bread and summer, gather food in harvest.

Like the ant is called wise here because the ant works labors for provision. And we see this at different points in Proverbs in such a way that

the sluggard is warned for not working. A little sleep, a little slumber. It's like the sluggard says it's just a little bit of rest here and there.

But in the end, this is a picture of a person who does not work hard.

Now obviously this could be misunderstood to say never

rest which we know the Bible does not teach. God himself models rest for us but it's interesting it's not that God rests for six days

and then works for one God works for six days in creation and then rests on the seventh.

So clearly God has created us to work

and to work hard, to labor in a way that brings him glory, in a way that brings provision for our lives, for our

families, in a way that provides for the good of society and people around us. Work is good. I think about even reading like

second Thessalonians and first Thessalonians. You have all these people in Thessalynaikha

who were saying Jesus is going to come back at any moment and so people were quitting

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