Moderation in all things
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LR
Oct 12, 2008, 12:42:33 PM10/12/08
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The advice to be moderate in all things is excellent. Yes, it does
include itself in the all things.
So sometimes , on occasion, perhaps even rarely, you can be "not
moderate".
Consider things like
making a plan: a good plan well executed to completion is better than
waiting forever on a best plan.
Tortoise and the Hare: a childhood story trying to make a point, but
does a poor job. In trying to stick with an animal example, it leaves
a child to think, well if I'm fast, and don't interrupt the race
that's OK, so the boy puts the emphasis on being fast. Based upon the
story, that would seem reasonable.
The hare only lost the race because he kept taking time off to rest
and play.
But the point of being "fast" is when the problem arises of also being
inaccurate.
Like squeezing off one good shot is better than a super-fast shot that
widely misses the target.
He who makes haste, makes waste. This is most common result of
"trying to be fast."
So, get a good plan. Do it in season. Be diligent. And do it
well.
A job worth doing is worth doing right (so you don't have to do it
over ).
Instead of focusing on being fast, focus on being diligent and
thorough and complete, leaving nothing out , skipping no steps. Like
the wheat harvester who must swing the sickle at every step, not
stepping twice inbetween strokes. To be in a hurry to reach the end
of the row is to leave some of the work undone, or poorly done. A
patient, deliberate step is all that it takes.
Let the light of the eye be single. Focus on the task at hand.
It's better to do one thing and do it well and have it done , than to
start several and have them blown away before they're finished. So
many tasks get blown away before they're finished, and all the work
put into them is lost .
A builder wanted to show his efficiency at building houses. So he had
his crew split up between three house and work on three at one time.
They got the foundation laid, on all three, then the walls went up on
all three, but then the wind came, caught the unsupported walls, and
blew them away.
Had the roof been on when the wind came, the walls wouldn't have blown
away.
It is so good to finish a thing when you can, for you don't know when
the winds may blow.
And Yes, haste does make waste. But those who never take time to do
things right are the same ones who never learn enough to see the
waste. You learn by doing what is right.
A good understanding have all they who do the will of God. see
Proverb 111:10
================== related scripture =================
Proverbs 14:29 [He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding:
but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 21:5 The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to
plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want.
Proverbs 29:20 Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there
is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart
be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and
thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger
resteth in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an
evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Isaiah 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat
valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit before the
summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in
his hand he eateth it up.
Daniel 2:15 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why
[is] the decree [so] hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing
known to Daniel.
Habakkuk 1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and
hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to
possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.
Proverbs 10:4 He becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but
the hand of the diligent maketh rich.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing:
but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 14:29 [He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding:
but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 19:2 Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is]
not good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the
beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and]
look well to thy herds.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:24 For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown
[endure] to every generation?<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself,
and herbs of the mountains are gathered.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are]
the price of the field.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:27 And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food,
for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy
maidens.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 28:22 He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and
considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 29:20 Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there
is] more hope of a fool than of him.<BR>
<BR>
Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him
labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may
have to give to him that needeth.<BR>
<BR>
I Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own
business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;<BR>
<BR>
I Thessalonians 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are
without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.<BR>
<BR>
I Thessalonians 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are
without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.<BR>
<BR>
include itself in the all things.
So sometimes , on occasion, perhaps even rarely, you can be "not
moderate".
Consider things like
making a plan: a good plan well executed to completion is better than
waiting forever on a best plan.
Tortoise and the Hare: a childhood story trying to make a point, but
does a poor job. In trying to stick with an animal example, it leaves
a child to think, well if I'm fast, and don't interrupt the race
that's OK, so the boy puts the emphasis on being fast. Based upon the
story, that would seem reasonable.
The hare only lost the race because he kept taking time off to rest
and play.
But the point of being "fast" is when the problem arises of also being
inaccurate.
Like squeezing off one good shot is better than a super-fast shot that
widely misses the target.
He who makes haste, makes waste. This is most common result of
"trying to be fast."
So, get a good plan. Do it in season. Be diligent. And do it
well.
A job worth doing is worth doing right (so you don't have to do it
over ).
Instead of focusing on being fast, focus on being diligent and
thorough and complete, leaving nothing out , skipping no steps. Like
the wheat harvester who must swing the sickle at every step, not
stepping twice inbetween strokes. To be in a hurry to reach the end
of the row is to leave some of the work undone, or poorly done. A
patient, deliberate step is all that it takes.
Let the light of the eye be single. Focus on the task at hand.
It's better to do one thing and do it well and have it done , than to
start several and have them blown away before they're finished. So
many tasks get blown away before they're finished, and all the work
put into them is lost .
A builder wanted to show his efficiency at building houses. So he had
his crew split up between three house and work on three at one time.
They got the foundation laid, on all three, then the walls went up on
all three, but then the wind came, caught the unsupported walls, and
blew them away.
Had the roof been on when the wind came, the walls wouldn't have blown
away.
It is so good to finish a thing when you can, for you don't know when
the winds may blow.
And Yes, haste does make waste. But those who never take time to do
things right are the same ones who never learn enough to see the
waste. You learn by doing what is right.
A good understanding have all they who do the will of God. see
Proverb 111:10
================== related scripture =================
Proverbs 14:29 [He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding:
but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Proverbs 21:5 The thoughts of the diligent [tend] only to
plenteousness; but of every one [that is] hasty only to want.
Proverbs 29:20 Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there
is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart
be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and
thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger
resteth in the bosom of fools.
Ecclesiastes 8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an
evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Isaiah 28:4 And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat
valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit before the
summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in
his hand he eateth it up.
Daniel 2:15 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why
[is] the decree [so] hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing
known to Daniel.
Habakkuk 1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and
hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to
possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.
Proverbs 10:4 He becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but
the hand of the diligent maketh rich.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing:
but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 14:29 [He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding:
but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 19:2 Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is]
not good; and he that hasteth with [his] feet sinneth.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 20:21 An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the
beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and]
look well to thy herds.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:24 For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown
[endure] to every generation?<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself,
and herbs of the mountains are gathered.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:26 The lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are]
the price of the field.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 27:27 And [thou shalt have] goats' milk enough for thy food,
for the food of thy household, and [for] the maintenance for thy
maidens.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 28:22 He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and
considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.<BR>
<BR>
Proverbs 29:20 Seest thou a man [that is] hasty in his words? [there
is] more hope of a fool than of him.<BR>
<BR>
Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him
labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may
have to give to him that needeth.<BR>
<BR>
I Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own
business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;<BR>
<BR>
I Thessalonians 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are
without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.<BR>
<BR>
I Thessalonians 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are
without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.<BR>
<BR>
stephen
Oct 12, 2008, 3:08:24 PM10/12/08
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Larry,
Yes the link took me to the blog.
:)
Stpehen
Yes the link took me to the blog.
:)
Stpehen
Larry Rice
Oct 13, 2008, 2:08:47 AM10/13/08
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