Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?

God is calling the spiritually dead to be born again, to awaken to a new life. Sleep is a metaphor for being spiritually dead.

Luke 8:52 And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.”

Those who like to sleep are sluggards, they hold tight to old beliefs, titles, and privileges.

John 3:4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

All those who were in the world only had visions of earthly kingdoms but Jesus was showing them the everlasting kingdom. John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Those that are asleep dream of ruling their own world. Vanity of vanities!!!

• John 18:36
  Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
• James 2:5
  Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
• Revelation 11:15
  The Seventh Trumpet
  Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”

Wake them up! They need to be warned.

Proverbs 6:10-11 English Standard Version

10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

When you think of ants our “eyes” only view the industrious line of ants and the “works of their hand”. But this line says consider her ways, the queen.

My view of the queen is simple; her life is all about the children, that next generation, bringing life to the nest to ensure the future.

The workers live to support that goal, they busy themselves to feed themselves secondly, only after securing the future.

This is worked out in the NT in the sense of spreading the gospel, securing the future of the Universal Church, the Bride.

It is not about staying busy, it is about securing the future. If our view of the future is creating our own personal legacy, then no matter how hard we work, we are a sluggard because we haven’t secured a future for the Bride.

Proverbs 6:7 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,

What compels us to look to the future is not our ruling class, it is our betrothed, Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 6:8 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.

The old adage “make hay while the sun shines” is converted into NT as Matthew 5:14

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.” and Philippians 2:15

“that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world”

As the world might see the busy ants above ground, we might see this; 1 Corinthians 9:1

“Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?”

The work of a disciple is to make disciples. This continues to be our work until the end of the age.