Fidelity to opportunity

Proverbs 24:30-34

1. What lesson was learned?

A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest-
and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.

Luke 19:11-16

2. What mistake was made?

A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We don't want this man to be our king.'