The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway. - Proverbs 15:19
Laziness is an attempt to find comfort.
9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest…
- Proverbs 6:9-10
Laziness is a trap.
11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
- Proverbs 6:11
Jesus Christ set us free and sent the Holy Spirit to be our Comforter.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
- John 14:6
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
- John 14:16-17, ESV
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever…
- John 14:16, KJVAE
Don’t settle for the pursuit of comfort. Pursue the Comforter!
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
- John 15:4-5
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
- John 15:7, 10
The Holy Spirit leads us into a rhythm of rewarding work and rest.
…the path of the upright is a level highway.
- Proverbs 15:19
8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
- John 15:8-9