How to Destroy Your Life

Today's reading:

• Proverbs 18:9 -- One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

Thoughts:
This verse is not only talking about our jobs and careers. It's talking about doing what needs to be done.

Whether at work or at home or in volunteer settings, what is important about our tasks is not how much time we put into them. What is important about our tasks is that we finish them.

If we don't wash the dishes, we don't have a clean place for our food.

If we don't change the sheets, we don't have a clean place to sleep.

If we don't wash our clothes, we don't have anything clean to wear and we stink like crazy.

If we don't care for our pets (or worse, our children), they get sick and sometimes worse.

If we don't maintain our homes, they rot and repairs cost outrageous amounts of moolah.

If we don't communicate with our spouses, trust erodes.

And at work, if we find ourselves "getting behind," there are only a few possible reasons: either we have not spent our work hours well, or we have accepted responsibility for tasks that we can't complete during our normal work hours and we refuse to take the extra time required to complete them, among others. Both the ones I'm pointing at are matters of slacking. And both are destructive.

Friends, let's do what needs to be done. Don't worry about people accusing you of being a workaholic just because of the amount of time you might have to invest. Keep your priorities straight, keep your eyes on Jesus and your heart on your family, and do what needs to be done -- at home and at work. Don't destroy your life by slacking.