A Prayer to Overcome Procrastination and Laziness
By Emma Danzey
Bible Studying
“He who gathers crops in summer time is a prudent son, however he who sleeps throughout harvest is a disgraceful son.” – Proverbs 10:5
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Onerous work is difficult. There isn’t any doubt about it. A part of Adam’s curse from sinning at first is present in Genesis 3:17b-19, which says, “Cursed is the bottom due to you; via painful toil you’ll eat meals from all of it the times of your life. It’s going to produce thorns and thistles for you, and you’ll eat the vegetation of the sector. By the sweat of your forehead you’ll eat your meals till you come back to the bottom, since from it you had been taken; for mud you might be and to mud you’ll return.”
The temptation to be lazy is ever-present. Identical to any sin, laziness is exchanging long-term advantages for partaking in momentary pleasure. It’s a seemingly simple highway, however it results in penalties. Once we are presupposed to work, we will be flooded with concepts of leisure, relaxation, and hobbies as an alternative. Though these usually are not unhealthy issues, the truth is, God gave us the command to sabbath. Nonetheless, we had been placed on this planet for a function and a part of that function consists of work, elevating youngsters, and caring for the earth. Proverbs 10:5 factors to the truth that somebody who works onerous receives the reward of the harvest, whereas somebody who sleeps and ignores the work is disgraceful. Laziness isn’t any small subject to God; it’s a real sin battle that may creep into anybody’s life.
Possibly you feel convicted already, or perhaps you have no idea if that is actually that massive of a battle in your life. Maybe you will have the other subject of overworking and by no means resting? No matter your expertise, as we take a look at God’s Phrase, might we be reminded of the center behind onerous work to glorify God and be devoted to Him. Once we are devoted within the little issues, he can use us in larger methods.
Let’s Pray:
Pricey Lord,
Thank You that You’re the God who is aware of excellent steadiness of onerous work and relaxation. Forgive us for the occasions after we fall into procrastination and laziness. We are sometimes tempted to delay and keep away from onerous issues to take pleasure in momentary pleasure and leisure. Would you forgive us for ignoring the decision to honor You in all issues and to do all the things for Your glory? We pray in opposition to sinful patterns which have developed into our lives that maintain us again from transferring ahead. We ask that you’d unravel the unique lies that we believed that set us again or prevented us from urgent into your finest for us. We pray that you’d open our eyes to issues which can be hindering us from dwelling life to the fullest. Information us in boundaries with gadgets, media, and the rest that causes us to binge or turn out to be hooked on issues that take up an excessive amount of time if we aren’t conscious and cautious.
Remind us of the energy that we discover in You even after we are worn. Refresh our hearts with our id being rooted and established in You, not in what we do. Assist us to work from a spot of relaxation and never out of exhaustion. Nonetheless, after we are in seasons of pushing, would you information us and assist us depend on You? Reveal the effective line between resting and laziness. Open our eyes to laziness in relationships with our spouses, youngsters, relations, or mates. Present us how we now have not been as intentional and convict us into pursuing these relationships in love. Open our eyes to laziness in our careers or schooling. Present us the place we now have turn out to be apathetic or detached about rising as an worker or scholar. Open our eyes to how we now have turn out to be lazy in our every day stroll with You. Convict our hearts and draw us near You in Your phrase and prayer. Open our eyes to how we now have turn out to be lazy in Christian neighborhood.
Assist us to not undergo the motions, shortly reject alternatives to serve, or view church as one thing to only eat. Assist us to be challenged to be greater than a congregant, however to actually be the physique of Christ. Thank You that You inform us that You didn’t delay Your promise to us and wish all to come back to repentance in You (2 Peter 3:9). Thank You for the reminder that You by no means get drained or need to sleep (Psalm 121:4). In our finite or damaged humanity, assist us to have attitudes of doing all the things for You glory and fleeing from the temptation to be lazy or to procrastinate. With You, all issues are potential! Amen.
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