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TO BE LAZY IS TO MAKE LIFE HAZY; ON LAZINESS “Remove far from me laziness and slothfulness. Every second, minute and hour imprint upon the tablets of my heart, the need to be diligent.” Very few tragedies can be as worse as congenital laziness  (or laziness that has been infused into the blood stream) Imagine how many opportunities you could maximize if you roused yourself up to work. The real tragedy then is not death but what dies inside a man while he lives. Scriptures actually talks about the fact that the path of a lazy person is filled with thorns.  Th----ooo---rnnnss (ouch!) but the way of the righteous (diligent) is made plain. “I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding and it was filled with thorns., nestles covered the face thereof and the stonewall thereof was broken.” – Proverbs The thorns could be in form of tumble down shacks and so on. The lazy one has the very best of intentions, He is always going to do so
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ON THE LOVE OF LEARNING 2 There is the need to study to be steady. Destiny is to be driven to its destination and information is the vehicle. It is important to study to be steady.  The word light is actually from the Greek word “phos” and this means knowledge while the greek word for darkness, “skoltia” relates to darkness. Knowledge is therefore the light that brings illumination to your path. Paul who wrote one-third of the new testament Bible had this to say: “ Give attendance to reading, exhortation and doctrine.” He was also famous for  saying, "The cloak I left at Troas, bring with thee and the books especially the part (notes)" He was a man who had a clear thirst for information. He was even accused by Titus: “And Festus cried with a loud voice; You must be mad; too much learning hath made thee mad!’ I feel i should say that you do not read because of what you want to get out of books. Instead you read because of what you want the books to get o