Get Off Your Couch and Get A Job

I love having our HITC students do compare and contrasts from the Bible. Yesterday I had them do one on the lazy man or sluggard, and the hard worker, or diligent man. I'm shocked at how big of an issue this is within our culture, especially in young people. We live in an entitlement culture, who expects everything to be handed and given to them. Whatever happened to hard work? Whatever happened to young people once having a reputation for being hard workers? I realize that we live in a time where the economy is down, but that's what so incredible about America. Do you know that more people became millionaires during the Great Depression than during any other time period? Why is that? Because "necessity is the mother of invention." I guess the thing that worries me the most about what I see in our culture when it comes to laziness are the attitudes involved. There's no desire to work. Young people are quite happy to sit on a couch, play video games, mess with their cell phones and other electronic devices, rather than finding a job and working hard. There are jobs out there if you look hard enough. There are so many opportunities just waiting for those who run after them. Doors won't open for those who don't knock. In Proverbs 24:30-34 we get a clear object lesson from the man who's passive, lacks initiative, always procrastinating and undisciplined. Verse 32 tells us to look at what we see and receive instruction from it. It's time to get off your couch, put your computer down, and get going! Stop making excuses do what God has called you to do, work!