Wish-bone People

 “They wish for, and long for, and sigh; but don’t have the get-up and try.”

 Opportunity often comes disguised as hard work. People make statements like, “I wish we had more children attending our services – but – they refuse to teach a class.

Prov.21:25 reads: “The desire of the lazy man kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.” 

 Funny-bone People

 “Life is a joke, and humor blinds the eye;

So when responsibility beckons, they ask sneeringly, “Why?”

 This doesn’t mean to refrain from fun or laughter. It is talking about making light of God’s Word or participating in humor that is not appropriate. Ephesians 5:4 calls this “foolish talking or coarse jesting.” Also, in Ecclesiastes 3:4 we are told that “there is a time to laugh and a time to refrain from laughter.”

 Jaw-bone People

 “They jaw, rave, and cry – Long on talk, but short on try.”

 In Matthew 25:25-26, the servant who had only one talent (and failed to use it) was called “lazy and wicked.” In God’s eyes those who are all talk and no work are wicked.

 Back-bone People

 “Up and at it, they ascend the mountains high. For they seek, and seek, and try, and try.”

When the Jews went back to rebuild the wall in Jerusalem, they finished it in record time because “they had a mind to work.” (Nehemiah 4:6)

 We are also told in Eccl.9:10, “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.”

Borrowed and Edited by Bill Watkins