Busy or Lazy What’s Holding

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Busy or Lazy What’s Holding

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Dealing with Your StuffDealing with Your Stuff

Proverbs 6:9Proverbs 6:9

How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? (NIV)

How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? (NIV)

Selective Laziness Selective Laziness

When comfort wins over effort and I fail to do the right thing.

When comfort wins over effort and I fail to do the right thing.

Proverbs 24:30-34Proverbs 24:30-34I passed by a lazy person's field and by the vineyard of someone with no sense. Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds, and the stone walls had fallen down. I thought about what I had seen; I learned this lesson from what I saw.

I passed by a lazy person's field and by the vineyard of someone with no sense. Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds, and the stone walls had fallen down. I thought about what I had seen; I learned this lesson from what I saw.

Proverbs 24:30-34Proverbs 24:30-34You sleep a little; you take a nap. You fold your hands and lie down to rest. Soon you will be as poor as if you had been robbed; you will have as little as if you had been held up. (NCV)

You sleep a little; you take a nap. You fold your hands and lie down to rest. Soon you will be as poor as if you had been robbed; you will have as little as if you had been held up. (NCV)

Waiting RoomWaiting Room

Selective LazinessSelective Laziness

•Keeps us from Living the Fulfilled Life that God Intends

•Keeps us from Living the Fulfilled Life that God Intends

John 10:10John 10:10

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (NIV)

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (NIV)

Selective LazinessSelective Laziness

• Keeps us from Living the Fulfilled Life that God Intends

• Minimizes the Importance of My Relationship with Others

• Keeps us from Living the Fulfilled Life that God Intends

• Minimizes the Importance of My Relationship with Others

James 4:1&10James 4:1&10

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? …Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. (NIV)

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? …Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. (NIV)

To Overcome Selective Laziness

To Overcome Selective Laziness

• Care about God’s Bigger Picture• Care about God’s

Bigger Picture

1 Corinthians 4:21 Corinthians 4:2

A person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful. (NLT)

A person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful. (NLT)

Matthew 25:21Matthew 25:21

"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' (NIV)

"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' (NIV)

Matthew 25:23Matthew 25:23

"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' (NIV)

"His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' (NIV)

Matthew 25:26Matthew 25:26

"His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant!” (NIV)

"His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant!” (NIV)

Matthew 25:29Matthew 25:29

To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. (NLT)

To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. (NLT)

To Overcome Selective Laziness

To Overcome Selective Laziness

• Care about God’s Bigger Picture

• Care about the Gift of Today

• Care about God’s Bigger Picture

• Care about the Gift of Today

Matthew 6:34Matthew 6:34

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (NIV)

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (NIV)

Overcoming Selective Laziness

Overcoming Selective Laziness

• Don’t be Surprised when Discipline and Work are Uncomfortable• Work to Understand

the “Big Picture” and the “Gift of Today”• Start Somewhere –

With a Realistic Goal

• Don’t be Surprised when Discipline and Work are Uncomfortable• Work to Understand

the “Big Picture” and the “Gift of Today”• Start Somewhere –

With a Realistic Goal

Selective Laziness Selective Laziness

When comfort wins over effort and I fail to

do the right thing.

When comfort wins over effort and I fail to

do the right thing.

James 4:17James 4:17

In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don't do it, that, for you, is evil. (MSG)

In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don't do it, that, for you, is evil. (MSG)

Busy or LazyWhat’s Holding

You Back?

Busy or LazyWhat’s Holding

You Back?

Dealing with Your StuffDealing with Your Stuff