Covid-19 When Life is Risky “Watching” Point 4

Covid-19

When Life is Risky “Watching” Point 4

If watching is keeping you from being productive

If excuses outweigh results

Beware!!!

If we do not sow we will not reap

If the forecast tomorrow is rain get out the umbrella

If the forecast tomorrow is Corona get out the mask

The point is don’t spend your life watching

How long will you lie there, you sluggard?

When will you get up from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest — 

and poverty will come on you like a bandit

and scarcity like an armed man.  Proverbs 6:9-11

Remember

Fear like most things contains good and evil

Fear that keeps you from doing what is right is evil

Fear that brings respect in the way you do things is good

 

When Life is Risky “Watching” Step 4

You might say I am a weather watcher.

I find myself making plans based

on the weatherman’s forecast.

I love sun and a light breeze.

I hate cold, wind and dark cloudy days.

Living in Toledo…

 20% of our days are clear,

up to 40% mostly clear,

 so 60% of our days are cloudy.

I love to do things, I love to be productive.

But I find I have less

energy when it is cloudy.

The other day Sandy asked if I got

out the paint brushes for the grandkids

to paint our lawn furniture.

I said they will not be able to paint for 4 or

5 days because rain is in the forecast.

Solomon realized the threat of wind and clouds

can keep us from being productive…

Whoever watches the wind will not plant;

whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

This point is, maybe the biggest…

    

When Life is Risky “Watching” Point 4.

I confess, I complain about the weather.

I love to go boating but because of all

the bad weather we get in Ohio, I have

not planned to go boating in 12 years.

I finally decide to fix up my

boat this year and sell it.

The Coronavirus has forecasters predicting

a year or more of wind and clouds.

The forecast has caused us to become depressed.

There is fear to go out to plant or harvest.

We were created to be fruitful and to multiply.

We are created in Christ to do good works.

There is a reason we get depressed when it is

cloudy and we become unproductive.

The forecast of disaster is in the news every day.

Fear is ruling rather than guiding.

Fear like most things contains good and evil.

Fear that keeps you from

doing what is right is evil.

Fear that brings respect in the

way you do things, is good.

Solomon saw the problem with

being a watcher and not a doer.

He had a problem with letting the

forecast get in the way of doing the

things that needed to get done.

Just like we watch the weatherman,

we watch the news media.

If watching the TV or other

media is filling you with fear…

If watching is keeping you

from being productive…

If excuses outweigh results…

Beware!!!

If we do not sow…

 We will not reap.

If the forecast tomorrow is rain…

 Get out the umbrella.

If the forecast tomorrow is Corona…

 Get out the mask.

The point is…

 Don’t spend your life watching.

How long will you lie there, you sluggard?

When will you get up from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest — 

and poverty will come on you like a bandit

and scarcity like an armed man. 

Proverbs 6:9-11

Remember…

Fear like most things

contains good and evil.

Fear that keeps you from

doing what is right, is evil.

Fear that brings respect in the

way you do things, is good.

See tomorrow’s Devotional for Point Number 5

     

Scripture Reading

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6 NIV

Cast your bread upon the waters,

for after many days you will find it again.

2 Give portions to seven, yes to eight,

for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

3 If clouds are full of water,

they pour rain upon the earth.

Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,

in the place where it falls, there will it lie.

4 Whoever watches the wind will not plant;

whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

5 As you do not know the path of the wind,

or how the body is formed in a mother's womb,

so you cannot understand the work of God,

the Maker of all things.

6 Sow your seed in the morning,

and at evening let not your hands be idle,

for you do not know which will succeed,

whether this or that,

or whether both will do equally well.