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There is something our culture has
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gotten terribly wrong. We have confused
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laziness with rest. And the Bible does
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not. Scripture is cleareyed about this
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distinction in a way that modern life is
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not. Rest is a gift. It is recovery. It
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is the Sabbath, a day set apart, earned,
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holy. Rest is what happens when the work
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is done. and you step back to remember
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that you are not your productivity. You
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are a creature and creatures need
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restoration. Laziness is something else
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entirely. It is the refusal to do what
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has been given to you to do. It is not
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peace. It is the beginning of decay.
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Proverbs speaks of the slugard with a
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kind of sad inevitability. The slugard
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craves and gets nothing. His hands
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refuse to work. He covetss all day long.
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Meanwhile, the diligent person is
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abundantly satisfied, not because they
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are joyless workaholics, but because
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they have learned that work itself, when
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done with purpose, is a form of health.
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Here is what laziness actually does. It
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whispers that you deserve to rest when
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you have not labored. It offers comfort
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without having earned it. And in that
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small moment of accepting comfort you do
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not deserve, something inside you
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atrophies your self-respect.
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Your confidence your sense that you are
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capable of doing difficult things over
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time. And this is the crucial part that
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erosion compounds. You begin to avoid
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harder things. You choose easier paths.
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Not because they are more restful, but
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because you are becoming someone
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smaller, someone capable of less.
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Discipline is the antidote, not frantic
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busyiness, not the false virtue of
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exhaustion, but the steady commitment to
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do what belongs to you, to work while it
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is day, to build something, to complete
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what you started. This is where dignity
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comes from. Not from having more, but
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from being someone who does what they
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say they will do. Laziness is not a sin
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of excess. It is a sin of erosion. And
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by the time you notice you have become
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small, it is harder to remember how to
