Matthew 23:23 says, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.”

I encourage you to go back and read Proverbs 24:30-31. The young man neglected to take care of his vineyard. His land was overgrown with nettles and the protective hedge of stones was broken down.

Neglect means to fail to care for something properly. I use the Song of Solomon 1:6 as a goad for myself. The Shulamite woman said, “…they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept.”

When I have an essential ‘weightier matter’ to carry out but don’t want to, I say, ‘My own vineyard I have not kept.’ That becomes my motivation to right then do what needed to be done. Right now I am pulling weeds that have been neglected.