Tomorrow I am bringing a talk to our college ministry (the gathering) on Slothfulness. I have had a difficult time preparing this talk because if I was to ask a group of people if they are lazy, I highly doubt I would get any takers. Most Americans are dedicated to our work and dedicated to our recreation, and at the end of the day or week, we are lucky if we have any free time.
In my opinion, slothfulness has little to do with work or with how crazy full our schedules are. Slothfulness has everything to do with whether we are lazy with the important things of life. Here (in my opinion) are important things of life: Our relationships with God, our marriages, our children, and our church. We can be so busy with everything else in life that we become slothful with the important things.
When I hear people say, "I am just so busy during the day that when I come home all I want to do is relax and watch TV," I think to myself, "You are slothful!" Nobody denies that we all are busy with work, but when we say we are too busy to spend quality time with God daily, to have meaningful conversations with our spouses, and to not serve in our local churches, we have sure signs of sloth.
What say you? Are we a people of sloth?
2 comments:
Yes, yes we are. You do what you want to do. As little time as we have. We are still going to do what we really want to do. We will still make time for the important things in life, we just need to make up our minds what is important.
Good post Jared, I hope that the message went well. Way to get a post up. I need to keep my end of the bargain too.
Great point. I never looked at laziness that way, because then I'd have to call myself lazy.
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