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Laziness does not announce itself. It
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arrives as relief. It whispers that you
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have earned rest. That the work will
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still be there tomorrow. That one day of
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margin will not matter. And each of
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these things is true in isolation.
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But laziness does not operate in
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isolation. It compounds. It creates a
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gravity that pulls downward. The writer
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of Proverbs was ruthless about this. He
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watched laziness in others and saw what
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the lazy person could not yet see. The
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slow dissolution of everything. A little
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sleep, a little slumber, a little
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folding of the hands to rest and poverty
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will come on you like a thief. Not
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because a single nap creates poverty,
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but because laziness is a direction. It
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is the choice repeated enough times to
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And difficulty is where all growth
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lives. But there is something deeper
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than material poverty. There is the
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poverty of an unlived life. The human
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being is made for exertion. For the
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satisfaction that comes only through
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effort applied to something that
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matters. The person who avoids all
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difficulty does not gain leisure. He
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gains a peculiar form of suffering. The
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knowledge that he is capable of more
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than he has chosen to become. This is
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why scripture does not celebrate ease.
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It celebrates faithfulness. It honors
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the person who works while it is day,
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knowing that night comes when no one can
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work. Now there is a false form of
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discipline, the grinding, anxious
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striving of a person trying to justify
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his existence through endless
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productivity. That is not what is being
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discussed here. That is another form of
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disease. True discipline is different.
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It is the quiet decision to tend what
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has been given to you, to develop what
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you have been equipped for, to say no to
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the comfortable thing so you can say yes
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to the true thing. Laziness always
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offers a reason. Discipline simply
