Proverbs 10:26
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
The book of Proverbs is a gift from God, designed to make us skillful in the art of living. It is not a collection of abstract platitudes for needlepoint pillows. It is hard-nosed, practical, and unflinchingly realistic about the way the world actually works because it was given to us by the One who made the world. And one of the recurring realities that Proverbs confronts, with a kind of bracing honesty that offends our modern sensibilities, is the problem of the sluggard. Our culture wants to medicalize this condition, to rename it, to find a therapeutic solution for what God simply calls sin. We want to make excuses for the sluggard, but God wants to warn him, and more importantly, to warn us about him. It deals with cause and effect, with sowing and reaping. And here, in this verse, we are given a sharp, sensory lesson on the effect a lazy man has on others.