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In Proverbs 13:4, Solomon says, The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is made fat (v. 4). Desire by itself does not produce fruit. Longing must be joined to faithful effort.
The sluggard has cravings, but not the willingness to do what is necessary to fulfill them in a wise way. He wants the outcome without the stewardship. This is one of Proverbs’s recurring warnings: laziness does not eliminate desire; it frustrates it.
The diligent person, by contrast, is made fat, meaning satisfied, supplied, and full. Diligence turns desire into action and action into fruit. This is not a guarantee of easy success in every circumstance, but a wisdom principle: faithful effort often leads to abundance, while idle appetite leads to emptiness.
Used with permission from TheBibleSays.com.
You can access the original article here:Proverbs 13:4 Meaning
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