The ill-favored and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favored and fat kine.
Genesis 41:4
"My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life.
---If I neglect prayer
for never so short a time, I lose all the 
spirituality to which I had
attained;
---if I draw no fresh supplies from heaven, the old corn in my
granary is soon consumed by the famine which rages in my soul.
---When the
caterpillars of indifference, the cankerworms of worldliness, and the
palmerworms of self-indulgence, lay my heart completely desolate, and
make my soul to languish, all my former fruitfulness and growth in grace
avails me nothing whatever.
The only way in which
all my days can be as the "fat kine," is to feed them in the right
meadow, to spend them with the Lord, in His service, in His company, in
His fear, and in His way." Charles Spurgeon
