The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
The diligent hand bears rule through steady industry, rising to authority, advancement and responsibility, while the lazy and idle are left subject to others, a practical lesson about industry in daily life. Diligence in this sense means holding persistently to a useful aim, making good use of time, and steadily building up ideas, influence, or wealth. Honest labor of whatever kind is honorable, while idleness is a curse. Such a diligent life yields advantages that keep increasing as time goes on.
Applied to ordinary work, doing each task carefully builds diligence, while slighting even small tasks forms a habit of neglect and makes a person a bad workman. The principle upholds the value of physical labor, since shunning work and growing up idle deprive children of endurance and useful experience. In the Lord's work it calls for serving with energy and ability and with careful attention to detail, because negligence is not acceptable. Those who give their best efforts in that service will receive the Lord's commendation.
The diligent hand bears rule through steady industry, rising to authority, advancement and responsibility, while the lazy and idle are left subject to others, a practical lesson about industry in daily life. Diligence in this sense means holding persistently to a useful aim, making good use of time, and steadily building up ideas, influence, or wealth. Honest labor of whatever kind is honorable, while idleness is a curse. Such a diligent life yields advantages that keep increasing as time goes on.
Applied to ordinary work, doing each task carefully builds diligence, while slighting even small tasks forms a habit of neglect and makes a person a bad workman. The principle upholds the value of physical labor, since shunning work and growing up idle deprive children of endurance and useful experience. In the Lord's work it calls for serving with energy and ability and with careful attention to detail, because negligence is not acceptable. Those who give their best efforts in that service will receive the Lord's commendation.