Welcome to Nancy Wilson's Feminine Podcast, presented by Canon Press.

Welcome to the Feminine Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson and thank you for joining me today.

Thought today I would visit with you about sluggishness, spiritual sluggishness and physical sluggishness.

And what is sluggishness? I think we all know.

But it's just dragging around, stalled out, maybe stalled out all the way, or stalled out just a little.

But letting a feeling of just not operating on all cylinders get you down.

And maybe you wake up a little icky or head achy or you just lack energy, you're just not in the mood.

You're just not. You're not revved up and ready to go.

And an older word for sluggish is slothful, and both these words come from animals, the sloth and the slug, neither of which we want to imitate, right?

So let's look at Hebrews 6, 11 and 12. Here it is.

And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end, that you do not become sluggish,

but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

The opposite of being sluggish is being diligent, and the author of Hebrews is telling us to show diligence all the way to the finish line.

And I'm so fond of Matthew Henry, and I looked at his commentary for these verses, listen to what he says about them.

They must not love their ease nor lose their opportunities.

And sluggishness is the way to lose our opportunities.

And you and I have so many opportunities today to be physically diligent and spiritually diligent, so let's approach our day, our week, our month this way.

Lord, help me to take advantage of all my opportunities to be diligent and not lose my opportunities.

We all do lose opportunities.

We have opportunities to be gracious that we miss or to be forgiving and we miss and we have to go back and pick things up and put things right.

But we should have in our mind to be looking out for opportunities to apply what we know and to do it.

So first this means as far as taking advantage of opportunities to be diligent, it means we have to resist the temptation to become sluggish.

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