I've mentioned before that "thorns" is often used in the Word as a symbol of evil spirits, so when I saw these verses I was struck by the correlation to a person who has been delivered and then fails to maintain their deliverance thru slothfulness.
Jesus himself taught that when a demon is cast out, it roams about and then comes back to the "house" it left and if it finds that "house" empty, it will reenter and invite other demons worse than itself.
Pro 24:30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Pro 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Here it says that even the wall has broken down as a result of the lazy person's neglect.
Pro 24:32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Pro 24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Pro 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed man.
If you've been delivered it is vital that you get into the Word of God every day in order to maintain your deliverance. For those who have experienced a rather dramatic deliverance (noisy and/or physically stressful) it may be easier because you have a vital memory of the demons leaving.
For those whose deliverance was rather quite, perhaps accompanied mostly by yawns or belches, there might not be the urgency to maintain your deliverance, because you keep wondering if anything really happened. First of all the doubt is being placed in your mind by the spirits, so you definitely have to maintain your deliverance by staying in the Word.
Being slothful and lazy is just an open doorway to a reinfestation.
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