Proverbs 14:23
“All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.”
There is an old church song that starts, “We shall do much in the years to come, but what have we done today.” This song is the perfect song for today’s verse.
I call this verse “The Yak-Yak Rule.” It does not talk about the out-and-out lazy person who refuses to ever work, but rather, it warns against being a person who talks and talks about what you are going to do someday but never does the work. You can recognize such a person by all the great plans they leave in their path but never do. They only have, as the verse says, “mere talk.”
Here are three issues with Yak-Yak people:
First, Yak-Yak people build a habit of talking and talking but not doing the work. This carries over into every aspect of life.
Second, Yak-Yak people come to poverty. This is what the proverb teaches.
Third, Yak-Yak people have damaged relationships. Their friends and family come to distrust them. That is a hard life.
In truth, Yak-Yak folks don’t see what they really are because they really do believe they will eventually accomplish their intentions. It just seldom happens. That is the way it is with Yak-Yak people.
By the way, I plan never to be a Yak-Yak person again.
That is my plan.
We’ll see!
I’m Lonnie Davis
And these are thoughts worth thinking.