Snoozing and Losing

Snoozing causes losing, literally. Time and good intentions are wasted while waiting to get up. How many hate it and yet still seem to struggle? It doesn’t matter for what time we set the alarm the warm cozy bed has a charm that keeps lulling us back to sleep. We’ve been charmed into complacency by comfort – yuk! If we hadn’t intended to get up at that early we wouldn’t have set our alarm for that hour. And we can say “I’m not a morning person” but any excuse or abuse of excessive snoozing - morning person or not just shows that our convictions to God and our goals are weak while we’re sleeping. I know it sounds funny but the results are not when we snooze one of the most productive times of day away. Then it’s no wonder we lack when our morning is slack we’ve lost hours of provision and can’t get em back. How many people have decided to do something but failed because snoozing prevailed? And sleep is valuable and necessary and helps us be strong but snoozing is not sleeping it’s just wasting time commitments not keeping. And when we don’t keep our commitments to ourselves starting with the simple one to get up “on time” the time which we ourselves set then our dreams go un-met. When we don’t pay our own price we end up in personal debt and filled with regret. We owe it to ourselves to follow through with what we’ve decided to do. It all starts in the morning, the alarm your first warning, snoozers will be losers and early beginners the winners.

Prov 6:9-11
9 How long will you slumber, O sluggard?
When will you rise from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to sleep —
11 So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler,
And your need like an armed man.
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Prov 6:6-11
6 You lazy fool, look at an ant.
Watch it closely; let it teach you a thing or two.
7 Nobody has to tell it what to do.
8 All summer it stores up food;
at harvest it stockpiles provisions.
9 So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing?
How long before you get out of bed?
10 A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there,
sit back, take it easy — do you know what comes next?
11 Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life,
poverty your permanent houseguest!
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Prov 19:15
15 Laziness casts one into a deep sleep,
And an idle person will suffer hunger.
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Prov 20:13
13 Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty;
Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.
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Prov 20:13
13 Don't be too fond of sleep; you'll end up in the poorhouse.
Wake up and get up; then there'll be food on the table.
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Luke 22:46
6 Then He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation."
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Rom 13:11
11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed
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Eph 5:14
14 Therefore He says:

"Awake, you who sleep,
Arise from the dead,
And Christ will give you light."
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