A time for... by Gary Rose

Saturday morning was a time for TV shows and cartoons. Saturday afternoon was a time for work; no ifs, ands or buts. In 2016 things are different. We are constantly surrounded by media and entertainment is the new normal. For many, work has been replaced by welfare. Leisure rules- and the result is poverty.

This is preventable; just listen to the Scriptures...

Proverbs, Chapter 6 (WEB)

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard. 

Consider her ways, and be wise; 

  ⁷ which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, 

  ⁸ provides her bread in the summer, 

and gathers her food in the harvest. 

  ⁹ How long will you sleep, sluggard? 

When will you arise out of your sleep? 

  ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber, 
a little folding of the hands to sleep: 

  ¹¹ so your poverty will come as a robber, 

and your scarcity as an armed man.

AND

Proverbs, Chapter 24 (WEB)

 ³⁰ I went by the field of the sluggard, 
by the vineyard of the man void of understanding: 

  ³¹ Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. 
Its surface was covered with nettles, 
and its stone wall was broken down. 

  ³² Then I saw, and considered well. 
I saw, and received instruction: 

  ³³ a little sleep, a little slumber, 
a little folding of the hands to sleep, 
  ³⁴ so your poverty will come as a robber 
and your want as an armed man. 

 I have no idea how many out there will heed what the Bible says and change, but even if a few will- there will be an effect. Remember: God's will, God's way, God's result. Enough said!!!