Mental Laziness Leads To Death

Mental Laziness Leads To Death

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Title: Mental Laziness Leads To Death ------------------- Date: 5/15/2001
Keywords: "death" "desire" "lazy" "sluggard"
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Passage: Proverbs 21:25-26*

25. The desire of the sluggard puts him to death, For his hands refuse to work;

26. All day long he is craving, While the righteous gives and does not hold back.

Questions

1. The death referred to here could be physical, but more likely there is more. What other kinds of death could the writer be meaning in this ancient proverb?

2. The desire for pornography is a relentless unsatisfied craving. How can this cause the death of your soul?

Practical help

When you are involved in pornography your desires put you to death. It's not wrong to desire love and sexual fulfillment, but hiding away peeping at nudity and filling the mind with sexual perversions is the sluggard's way.

Fortunately, this proverb also describes the righteous way and that is to be a giver. Give what? Give your life and energy -- not to self-gratification, but in service to others.

Jesus said it this way in Matthew 16:25-26*:

"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"
If what you are doing, cheapens yourself and others, then it will result in spiritual death. But if you obey God's Word and give your life into His hands, you will discover that what you thought was an act of death was actually the doorway to real life. If you don't attend a church where the Bible is taught and people prayerfully support one another, then let me suggest you pray that the Lord guide you to seek one today.

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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLEŽ, Š Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."