What is your "lion in the road"? That may make no sense to you until you read the Proverb below, but you probably have one. In simple terms, it is the thing that stares you down and keeps you from tackling the things you need to pursue. Sometimes simple.. sometimes very important to what you want to accomplish.
In the Proverb it is as simple as not being able to feed you and your family if that "lion" causes you to roll over and seek more sleep instead of rising to attack the day. The main thing I learned from this Proverb and I want you to take with you is the fact that these are characteristics of the "sluggard". Something I don't want to be, nor do I want it to be a trait that my children might take on....
We want to be wise.. and the wise are diligent and extra sleep or obstacles that they don't want to face will not keep them from the task at hand.
Proverbs 26
13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road,
a fierce lion roaming the streets!"
14 As a door turns on its hinges,
so a sluggard turns on his bed.
15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish;
he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
than seven men who answer discreetly.
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