Juan Tamad?

There’s this Filipino fable about a guy named Juan Tamad that you must know about. It says that Juan was in desperate need of something to eat and remembered that a neighbor had told him that he could have a mango from the tree whenever he wanted. And so Juan lay down under the mango tree sleeping, waiting for the mango to fall.

There are many times that we act like Juan. Something is promised to us and in our time of need we fail to work to get that promise—either we don’t ask for the promise to be delivered, or we sit around and wait for the Lord “to provide” without using our God-given talents and resources!