“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11)
Growing Dominion, Part 110
“Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger” (Prov. 19:15).
Anyone with a minimal acquaintance with the book of Proverbs knows that laziness is not considered a good thing. Not only is it not a good thing, but it is a bad thing that leads to poverty. We see that in the second half of this verse. But the first half has something else for us—slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. Laziness puts a man into a spiritual coma. Laziness puts you into a different mental zone.
When a man is lazy, the necessary work does not get done. When the necessary work does not get done, the end result is the natural consequence—poverty, hunger, etc. But in addition to all this, a certain spiritual lethargy sets in as well, and this prevents the victim of his own laziness from seeing what is happening to him. He does not know how it is all unfolding. The thing is a grand mystery.