DESTROYING THE FRIENDLY ENEMY

DESTROYING THE FRIENDLY ENEMY
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
The goal of every enemy is destruction. The greatest or deadliest enemy is the one that look like friend. That is why the enemies normally send people we love to us like:
Eve to Adam
Delilah to Samson
Judas to Jesus
Friendly enemies are terribly dangerous and they are very difficult to identify.
We need to recognize them and fight them.

One of such friendly enemy is LAZINESSS.
We were born with it.
It had grown up together with us.
It is very close to us.
Sometimes we recognize it and a times we excuse ourselves. Whichever way, identify it and rout it out of your life.

What is laziness?
The state or quality of being lazy; indisposition to action or exertion; indolence; sluggishness; heaviness in motion; habitual sloth. Laziness differs from idleness; the latter being a mere defect or cessation of action, but laziness is sloth, with natural or habitual disinclination to action.

Recognizing laziness
Procrastination – whenever you are postponing what you need to do now to another time, you know that is laziness.
Love to sleep – Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Yes we need to sleep but laziness makes you to oversleep.
Indulging in love of ease – you always want easy ways of doing things, and you do not want to stress yourself, that is laziness at work
Killing time – using undue reasons to waste time shows that laziness is at work
Thinking others will do it if you do not do it. Something you saw and you know that thing need to be corrected, then you pass over it and thing that somebody else will do it is an evidence of laziness.
Saying that “I am doing my best’ – always excusing yourself and thinking that you are already doing too much whereas you are still far below.

Other words for Laziness are –
Indolence
Slothfulness
Idleness
Sluggishness
Sluggard

Destroying Laziness
Recognize that you are not in this world by accident. You are born to win.
Time cannot be delayed, stored or bought back.
Things will never move until we move them.
Plan your time and execute your plans.
Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Tell yourself that there is dignity in labour.
See the examples of Jesus
Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
Jesus went about, He was up and doing.
John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
For Jesus, working was compulsory and He knew that there was time limit.
You have a destiny to fulfill.
There is reward for hard work.
There must be learning and understanding of what is needed to be done.
Never leave for tomorrow what you can do today.
Never indulge your body or strength.
The more you work, the more you can work.
Learn from the ants
Pro 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
The ants has no supervisor but they do their work at the right time.

Destructive works of Laziness –
Poverty, hunger, unfulfilled visions, sorrow and sadness are the results of laziness as we shall see from these passages below.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 24:30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Proverbs 24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 12:27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Rise up and shake yourself from the dust, you do not belong there, you are an eagle of God and you must be soaring high. Jide Oladimeji jide.oladimeji@gmail.com
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