Read Proverbs 24: 30-34  Our verses for today are talking about the sluggard.  We have heard about the sluggard before in Proverbs.  What is a sluggard?  Another name for a sluggard is a lazy person.  In the first two verses Solomon noticed two bad things about the fields and the vineyards of the sluggard.  Let's read verses 30 and 31 again and see if you can find the two bad things about the sluggard's fields and vineyards.  Did you find them?  First they were grown over with thorns and nettles.  The fields and vineyards were taken over with weeds instead of growing good plants that produce food.  That is because the lazy person was too lazy to pull up the weeds from out of his fields and vineyards.  Then secondly, the wall was broken down.  Driving up in Virginia, I noticed rock walls around the fields.  Over the years, the hard working farmers have picked up rocks from out of their fields and used them to build rock walls around the fields.  The rocks are pulled out of the fields so that the farmer can easily plow the fields.  And the rock walls keep rabbits from getting into the fields and eating the crops.  But back in Proverbs, the fields and vineyards of the sluggard had weeds and a broken down wall.  When harvest time would come, how much harvest would the lazy person have?  Not very much, would he?  The last two verses say that a little sleep when we should be working will lead to poverty.  If we are lazy when we should be working, we will be poor.  And then we will be sorry!  It is important that we work when we should work so that later, we will have what we need.  This is true of fields and vineyards and it is true of doing school work and doing home work.  If we work when we should, we will be happy later.  Let's read verse 32 once again.  Verse 32 says that Solomon looked at the lazy person's weedy field and thorny vineyard and broken down rock wall, and he learned what not to do.  Don't be lazy.  Do your work when you should and you will be glad that you did.