{"id":2111,"date":"2016-03-09T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2016-03-09T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:02:53","slug":"does-he-think-im-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2016\/does-he-think-im-lazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Does He Think I&#8217;m Lazy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em class=\"bible\">Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:<\/p>\n<p>Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,<\/p>\n<p>Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"alignrightsmall\">Proverbs 6:6-8<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be one who is unwilling or slow to the task assigned to me by the Master.<\/p>\n<p>Neither do I want to be as one who works free from oversight and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>And I certainly don&#8217;t want to be one of those who plays or lazes in the season to work.<\/p>\n<p>May the harvest not go to waste when it is my duty to reap!<\/p>\n<p>I purpose to&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li>work while it is day.<\/li>\n<li>reap while it is harvest.<\/li>\n<li>labor joyfully and faithfully.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/consider-her-ways.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/consider-her-ways.jpg\" alt=\"photo of ant with this message: Consider her ways, and be wise\" title=\"Consider her ways, and be wise (Proverbs 6:6)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:-1.1em; text-align:center\"><em>&#8220;Be wise&#8221; (Proverbs 6:6)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:240px; margin:0 auto; border:2px dotted black; text-align:center; font-family:verdana, arial, 'sans serif'; padding:10px 10px 0; font-size:80%\">Unwilling to the task?<\/p>\n<p>Careless in accountability?<\/p>\n<p>Lazy in the work season?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:125%; color:red; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom:0\">No!<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work&#8221;<\/em> (John 9:4).<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest&#8221;<\/em> (John 4:35).<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;Do all to the glory of God&#8230;from the heart&#8221;<\/em> (1 Corinthians 10:31; Ephesians 6:6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I stand at this 4:40 part of my morning, I wonder how God has in mind for me to live this out today.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this blog post is one of those ways.<\/p>\n<p>PS: <em class=\"bible\">&#8220;He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame&#8221;<\/em> (Proverbs 6:5).<\/p>\n<div class=\"lectura\" style=\"width:230px\">Reading:<\/p>\n<h3>Proverbs 6:1-11<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the Master endure a resentful hard worker?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,51,44,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-2111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"tag-aspiration","8":"tag-discipleship","9":"tag-live-right","10":"tag-obedience","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}