Getting the Balance Right
Ecclesiastes 4:5 Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.
When it comes to living out your life in what, frankly, is a crazy world these days, it’s becoming more and more difficult it seems to strike a happy work-life balance. Some want to take it easy yet have it all, while others are working themselves into an early grave.
There’s all sorts of research out there these days about work-life balance. In one study, around 60% of employees surveyed worldwide felt they were nailing it – which means that 40% weren’t. Not surprisingly, the figures are better for those able to work remotely and worse for those in high stress jobs.
Over the last couple of days, we’ve chatted about the perils of overwork and the need for those workaholics among us (and, I’ll put my hand up here as a recovering workaholic) to make some profound changes to save their lives and their families.
But today, let’s deal with laziness. There are plenty of lazy people out there in workplaces far and wide. People who’ll do the absolute minimum, nevertheless expecting to reap great rewards.
We’ve even coined a term for that – “silent quitting” to describe this deliberate and systemic laziness. But in the end, we all get our just desserts:
Ecclesiastes 4:5-6 . Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.(NRSV)
In other words, laziness – folding your hands, doing little to nothing – is foolishness because it eats away at you; it hollows you out, emptying you of the meaning, the satisfaction that you get from using your gifts and abilities to good things.
Go with laziness and eventually you’ll have nothing left. Fools fold their hands and consume their own flesh.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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