Today’s Scripture is Proverbs 10: verse 4.
“Idle hands make one poor,
but diligent hands bring wealth.”
When I was a kid, I was told, “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” It sounded like it was from the Bible. The thought is in today’s study. To allow yourself to do nothing, will bring poverty, but if you will diligent in your work, you will find wealth.
This verse is one of the wonderful places where the Bible gives us a commentary in the next verse. Let’s read it again, with both verses together.
Verse 4, “Idle hands make one poor,
but diligent hands bring wealth.”
Verse 5, “He who gathers in summer is a wise son,
but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son.”
This verse is telling us that it is not enough to simply do the right thing, but to do it at the right time. We must gather during the time of harvest, because, if we don’t, then we will miss the harvest and fail..
We see this same principle in our own lives. In school our assignments must be on time or we suffer. A cake taken from the oven too late is ruined. Fuel must be put in the car in a timely way. I’m sure you can think of a hundred ways this applies to your own life. Don’t let your hands be idle, but do what needs to be done and do it in a timely way.
Someone put it his way, “Fools do eventually, what wise people do immediately.”
I’m Lonnie Davis
And these are thoughts worth thinking.