Proverbs 13:4

The book of Proverbs gives us insights into so many different areas of life. The book gives us instruction on how to live our lives for God. Here is a proverb that gives us insight about craving:

Proverbs 13:4 (ESV)

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,

while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Wanting something really, really badly is a national past time.   Everyone wants.   In fact, everyone “really” wants.   But wanting doesn't produce anything.   Having a desire for something doesn't bring about anything.   Desire is necessary before you can accomplish something but desire alone is not going to accomplish anything.    The above proverb outlines what happens when a craving is in the heart of the sluggard. Those who are lazy can want all they want, but that is all they have, a craving.   The converse of the sluggard is the diligent.  When a person is diligent and full of work ethic their desires come to fruition.   The diligent don't just crave, they actually get "fat."   It is only through faith that we can be "diligent" and productive.   The lazy want.  The lazy dream.   The lazy imagine.    It is the diligent (those who plan hard and work hard) that eat the lunch of the sluggard and are made fat.   Are you a dreamer or a doer?  Wisdom is at the core of the diligent.   Folly is at the core of the sluggard.  Since it is the fear of the Lord that produces wisdom and wisdom produces diligence, diligence comes from fearing the Lord.  That is Solomon’s instruction in this proverb (and all the proverbs).  We can’t lose sight of what he is trying to teach us.  Hard work and the ethics to be diligent come from the soul of the wise person.  The sluggard does not fear the Lord and therefore is not wise.  They therefore sit all day and dream.  The diligent fears the Lord and makes the dream happen.