Many times we suffer not because God is bad or because the devil is strong, but because we are lazy. We hold in our hands the Bible, a manual for life tested, verified, and challenged for millennia without ever being refuted.
The Illusion of "Just a Little"
The text speaks of "a little" sleep. Spiritual laziness doesn't happen all at once. It's the "I won't read today," "I'll pray tomorrow," "I'll go next Sunday." That small, accumulated neglect pulls us away from the source of answers.
The Closed Manual
Life is a complex "machine." The Bible is the Manufacturer's Manual. The person who tries to assemble life (marriage, finances, emotions) without reading the manual will, inevitably, break it. The poverty mentioned in the verse isn't just about money, it's poverty of peace, of direction, and of purpose.
Optional Suffering
Suffering that results from ignorance is optional. If the answer to anxiety, to financial management, and to family is in the Book, and we don't read it out of "laziness," the fault for our "poverty" is exclusively ours. Prosperity and peace are available to whoever has the diligence to mine the Word.