Sloth/Workaholic

As I thought about a creative way to explain how sloth affects our soul a sheet came to mind. Sloth binds awareness making movement difficult. What I mean is that its attitude is, don’t bother me with whatever you have going on I’m comfy here. The full picture is like this:

You are asleep someone wants to wake you up. They call to you. You roll over. They call again. You roll over. They yell they bang pots they set off fire crackers. You continue to roll over. What you didn’t realize was that your sheet, that nice sheet, has now got you tangled up. When you finally do wake up and see, oh I don’t know, the equivalent of a gun in your face. It will be pretty much impossible to move because you are mummy wrapped in this habit of rolling over. That is sloth.

Why are you rolling over? There are many reasons to do this. 

The opposite of sloth is what? Workaholims? I’d argue that workaholics are sloths in another disguise. The distraction of trying to accomplish, keep moving, is rolling over. If you can’t stop and deal with yourself or what's really going on that’s the same thing as never trying in the first place. You also end up dead.

Both ideas, classic sloth and workaholism, leave you kind of hungry. Because really who has time to eat if you’re busy or really asleep?

I’m talking soul level stuff.

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Mat.5:6