“Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
“How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep – so shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.”
I think snooze buttons make no sense. When the alarm goes off, get up. If you have time to ‘snooze’ for 30 minutes, just set the alarm for 30 minutes later. Then you will get uninterrupted sleep. One day I mentioned this to my oldest son and he responded, “Dad, you’re right. Right now, snooze buttons make no sense, but when the alarm goes off at 5 o’clock in the morning, they make a lot of sense.” I suppose that is some form of the Theory of Relativity.
Regardless of whether you are for or against snooze buttons, you should stand firmly against slothfulness. This is one of the easiest traps for people to fall into, especially in our day of television, internet, and a plethora of other electronic distractions. Often, we don’t even realize we are being lazy because we are busy. We are deceived into thinking that we need more sleep, we need more time surfing the web, we need to see the latest episode. All the while, life passes us by and we fail to accomplish all that God has designed for us.
The solution? Observe the ant. Everything the ant does is done with a purpose of storing up for the winter, collecting food for later use. The ant does not get distracted by things that don’t matter to its one purpose. No one tells the ant to get out of bed and get busy doing something useful. Ants have no need of snooze buttons because they are diligent. God designed the ant with unwavering diligence, and we can learn from it. Here are some questions to help you get started.
- Am I doing what is most important as opposed to what entertains me?
- If for the next five years I keep doing what I have done in the last 30 days, will it have a meaningful outcome?
- Will what I am doing now count in 5 years? 10 years? Eternity?
- Do I enjoy gadgets more than the study of God’s Word?
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Related Scriptures: Proverbs 10:4; 13:4; 20:4; Romans 13:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:6
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“There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies.” – Benjamin Franklin
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