The Importance Of Sloth In Life

As the sun rises and its light peaks through the blinds you struggle to muster the strength to get out of bed. As you shuffle your feet to the bathroom to begin your morning routine you start to reminisce of a happier time in life. A splash of water over your face seems refreshing enough but as you look into the mirror you lock into a deep gaze with your reflection. As you look deeper into the gates of your soul you find two people, the old you and the creation you were meant to be in Christ, locked in an ongoing battle for you soul. Where did this conflict come from? Why are you going through such a struggle on the inside? The chief culprit of this inner conflict is the vice known as sloth. Sloth is a spiritual vice that can take over ones true identity, making them regret where they are in life, never allowing the host to enjoy the moments in life, and severs the connection between human and God. This vice is so deadly and elusive that contemporary culture constantly give a false interpretation of the vice. In
Looking at the slow moving mammal makes you wonder why it bothers to move at all. It sits in trees all day long and only moves when it has to move but even that is a pain staking, slow moving process which it has become accustom to. In many circles sloth, the mammal, is named after the cardinal sin of sloth because of the portrayed laziness of the animal. However this is not the case; the animal’s metabolism has a special adaptation in which it stores energy, not to mention that walking on the ground is a painful process for the animal with super long fingernails. Although the idleness of this animal, from a spiritual viewpoint, may be pointing humans in the right direction but we will get that