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The Lazy Lid | 7 Great Ways To Ruin Your life, Part 5
7 Great Ways to Ruin Your Life
Part 5 - “The Lazy Lid”
Driven but Distracted:
Busy with things that don’t really matter, while lazy at things that really do matter.
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 (NIV)
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9 We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. 10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” 11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. 13 And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
6 Ways Sloth Can Ruin Your Life:
1. Despair
2. Financial Hardship
3. Missed Opportunities
4. Broken Relationships
5. Boredom
6. Apathy Toward God
How to remove the lid of sloth from your life…
1. Identify the areas of sloth in my life
Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
“God, where in my life am I putting off the most important? Where am I losing passion for what you have called me to do and to be?”
I’m struggling in the area of
2. See eternal significance in what I’m doing right now
Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Colossians 3:23 (NIV)
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,
3. Set godly goals in the major areas of my life
• Marriage
• Kids
• Physical
• Financial
• Career
• Spiritual
• Sharing Gospel
4. Wake up to the reality of Jesus’ coming
Luke 12:35-37
“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes.
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7 Great Ways to Ruin Your Life
Part 5 - “The Lazy Lid”
Driven but Distracted:
Busy with things that don’t really matter, while lazy at things that really do matter.
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 (NIV)
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9 We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. 10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” 11 We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. 12 Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. 13 And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.
6 Ways Sloth Can Ruin Your Life:
1. Despair
2. Financial Hardship
3. Missed Opportunities
4. Broken Relationships
5. Boredom
6. Apathy Toward God
How to remove the lid of sloth from your life…
1. Identify the areas of sloth in my life
Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
“God, where in my life am I putting off the most important? Where am I losing passion for what you have called me to do and to be?”
I’m struggling in the area of
2. See eternal significance in what I’m doing right now
Psalm 90:12
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Colossians 3:23 (NIV)
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,
3. Set godly goals in the major areas of my life
• Marriage
• Kids
• Physical
• Financial
• Career
• Spiritual
• Sharing Gospel
4. Wake up to the reality of Jesus’ coming
Luke 12:35-37
“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. 37 It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes.