Friday morning was ushered in by the rains. I cringed at the fact that I’d get wet if I was going to work (since I have no means by private car yet). But as I did my laundry, I noticed it was mere drizzles. Loud windy drizzles!
My cousin and her dad went out to work under it. It was the kind that one would walk through (that was … before the heavier torrents fell in an hour later).
Amidst the pity party, God echoed Proverbs 22:13 to me: The lazy man says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!”
Now the probability of finding a lion in the streets randomly (especially in the city) is almost zero. The lazy man has a characteristic of exaggeration which my mind was embracing in my musings a few minutes back.
Then God said to me, ‘Say that proverb again but replace ‘the lion’ with ‘rain.’’
OUCH!
What a rebuke!
I laughed while I shook my head on.
What most of us say is, “There is rain outside! I shall drown in the streets! I’ll soak or soil or sink!” But it is all exaggeration. Many other instruments have been conjured to aid us in such weather or circumstances.
May He continue, sharpening us, & pruning laziness off of you and I.
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