I would love for some of my readers who have blogs to take one of these proverbs and use it as a springboard for a post. In a sense, the book of Proverbs is a book of sound bites. To me these sound bites just cry out to be blogged. My favourite blog posts always are those which take a sound bite from somewhere and react to it in some way — either ask it a question, challenge it, applaud it, explain it, expand it, apply it, or whatever. Play with these words a bit and may God use them to bless others!
Please pray for me as I prepare to preach the next sermon in this series on Sunday.
Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Proverbs 6:9
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
Proverbs 10:26
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Proverbs 15:19
The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
Proverbs 19:24
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.
Proverbs 22:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”
Proverbs 24:30
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense . . .
Proverbs 26:13
The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!”
Proverbs 26:14
As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.
Proverbs 26:15
The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.
Proverbs 26:16
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.
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