Today's Words Of Encouragement Are Written By A Young Woman Who Is Really In The Press: Tracy A. Dixon
Today I Don't Feel Like Doing Anything....
Proverbs 6:6-11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
6Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways and be wise!--7Which, having no chief, overseer, or ruler,8Provides her food in the summer and gathers her supplies in the harvest.9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down and sleep--11So will your poverty come like a robber or one who travels [with slowly but surely approaching steps] and your want like an armed man [making you helpless].
Today's message in the music comes from Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song". The chorus says: "Today I don't feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in my bed. Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone...'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything. Nothing at all."After the weekend I had, today this song was my anthem, but I still had to get up and go to work. So many times we get so busy living life that our bodies feel like shutting down. Some times we just get sick and tired of being sick and tired. Other times we get tired of being used and drained by people who have no appreciation for all we do. Then there are times when we just want to be lazy.
This scenario unfortunately plays out in both the natural and spiritual. We wake up on Sunday morning to the sound of rain drops on our window, and our flesh whispers....."just stay in bed this one time". You get hurt by someone in ministry and decide to stop going to church altogether. And God forbid Jehovah didn't show up when, how and where we wanted Him too, then we don't feel like praising Him, thanking Him or worshiping Him.
So as I pondered this lazy attitude, upset about some things in my life...God asked me to think about how bad things would really be if He decided one morning to make this His anthem for just one day. Wow, that was enough to jump-start my physical, emotional, and spiritual being. So the next time you just don't feel like giving God the praise that He is due, just for being Him............imagine for one second how you would survive if when you called Him, He replied with "Today I don't feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in my bed. Don't feel like picking up my phone, so leave a message at the tone. 'Cause today I swear I'm not doing anything. Nothing at all."
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