The Attack of the Sloth

7 Deadly Sins

mark cassara wrote:

The Attack of the Sloth

The Attack of the Sloth

 

• Sloth is not about laziness, its about indifference, toward the soul, indifference toward other human beings, indifference toward the world, INDIFFERENCE TOWARD GOD! Definition: absence of feeling, interest.
• Its not about being a couch potato, it more like the grim reaper! It’s a messenger of death who, with its bony fingers, poke the spots in our lives that out to to be thriving and watches the atrophy (To waste away; wither or deteriorate.)
• The Sloth moves us away from everything in our life that matters. It moves us away from things that give us LIFE!
• Have you ever been so caught up in something and the next thing you know 4 hours have gone by! Facebook, myspace, listening to music, video games, talking on the phone... It’s the Sloth
• The Sloth, much like the Python, is very subtle and before you know it, its TOO LATE! All the God given life that was once flourishing has been extinguished. You are de-motivated, laze, apathetic and have no desire for the things of GOD!
• The Sloth praises the ruts we unintentionally dig ourselves in. The sloth takes the passion out of life! And tells you that’s just the way it is!
• The Sloth eventually gives birth to depression  and depression leads to suicide (death)

Ways to beat the Sloth.

• Be intentional! Have a go getter attitude.
• Be direct about your faith in God
• Be passionate about souls!
• Seek the Lord with all your heart.
• When your board read the WORD, WORSHIP, or PRAY!
• Give your all to GOD!

 

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Proverbs 15:19

The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

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Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

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Colossians 3:23

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

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Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

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Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.