Friday, December 25, 2009

SIN OF SLOTHFULNESS

Let's, for a moment, think about the sin of slothfulness. Slothfulness takes form noticeably, but yet only takes form in an apathetic recognizable way. The deterioration of a luxurious grace God has placed into our lives for the sake of the stewardship as worship is present, but not acknowledged until the Spirit leads us to remembrance; this very grace is time. God desires for our efficiency to be manifested in discerning the use of time in a God-oriented mindset. The exposition of slothfulness is seen in light when we bring into this life discipline, and a practice of obedience alongside this discipline. Such a misdeed reveals the waste of a treasure; a realization that the time you've used for unneeded sleep was time that you could have meditated through the sixty-six book love letter, twice, in order that there might be an abiding in Christ and a closer communion with the Lord. A foolishness rests in slothfulness, but more than that, a slothfulness to climb out of the very sloth we are trapped in. Spiritual warfare manifests at the sight of rebellious slothfulness, but even more so in an unwanted slothfulness; it drives us away from such cares as discipline, obedience, faith, patience, etc. Reflecting through such a burdening sin in the specificity and high concentration of time, we need the foundation of the word that is our weapon of mass healing to bring us to surrender in our recognition of truth solidified. The ability to bow, to submit becomes peaceful healing in the soul from this heavy burden only if there is existing both a conscious and deep desire for deliverance. This is the word of the Lord:

"He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying,'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' But his master answered him. 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap what I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and as my coming, I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."
Matthew 25:24-29

To shed a radiance to slothfulness and the reason for it's dangers is because the formation of slothfulness is in a cycle, almost like the model of precipitation. Not only does apathy manifest from slothfulness, but slothfulness manifests from apathy. It is a constant revolution of slothfulness to selfishness to apathy to weak recognition to foolish discernment and back to slothfulness. In our young generations, there is a need for clear recognition that an alternative needs to be resorted to even as you wrestle through entering that door. The importance of understanding a close-to-firm truth of stewardship and obedience that leads to a constant internal wrestling arena, but if crystallized, leads to an unconditional joy found in the Spirit of the Lord. Extensive blessings that had originally been unseen because of the dense fog will become true reality as it had already been true reality, but only while we weren't fully in true reality. Limitations will be broken down, walls torn, and boundaries overcome; brand new rewards will swoosh in as promises are made whole in our perceptions.

The act of slothfulness is to reject all which God has created us to do and our purpose to have life to the full, just as the early church pursued in fellowship, prayer, worship, and evangelism. Slothfulness in this life is the ignorance of everything good and presented before us in truth. Let your eyes glow, get a life (the way Jesus described life), and reap the full taste of good fruit. Think worth.

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