Laziness 03 - Arghhhhhhh!!!

Lazy people are more often than not, frustrated people.

Nobody really wants to be lazy person, for this reason they will either deny their sin, claiming they know nothing of it, or they will make excuses about why nothing seems to go their way. However, amongst all the excuse making and denial, there will be an underlying current of frustration moving. Why is this the case?

Proverbs 13:4 says 'The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.' Again if we go back to Genesis 1, it is engrained within the very fabric of human nature this 'craving' to be productive, to fulfil our creation mandate. When we fall short of this mandate, there is an unsettling in our souls, and frustration sets it. Even the laziest of people, those who revel and take pride in their sluggishness, wish in some way for things to be different.

Every person will at one time find themselves in a place between jobs, or between schools, yet it is how we respond in these situations that really counts. The lazy person will compound excuse upon excuse, justifying themselves with their mind and tongue as to why nothing goes there way; they even manage to convince people and win the sympathy of others. The more they do this the more they compound their frustration, when in their hearts they know they could make that one extra phone call or enroll in that one extra class they need to take.

The diligent person when placed within these situations of change (and yes, 'change' seems to often be the catalyst for laziness) seems to make things work, seems to get the lucky break, seems to get the opportune phone call. Why is this? Doug Wilson writes 'The answer is everything comes to the one who hustles while he waits.' When we find ourselves lacking direction and we start to feel frustration, we should cultivate this dissatisfaction and use it to motivate ourselves toward work and the diligent pursuit of direction. We need to sense and feel the inadequacy of our excuse making, and convert our daydreaming into energy.