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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Monday, March 28th, 2020. We are also in the fourth week of Lent.

So all Lent long, we have been going through our series here on the seven deadly sins.

We have already talked about pride, envy, gluttony, and anger.

Today we are going to start on the next one, which is the sin of sloth.

Sloth.

Now, we're not talking about those cute, very slow-moving animals. We are talking about a sinful behavior that we can fall into. It's something that we sort of fall into instead of

choosing. So sloth is a sickness of the will that causes us to neglect our duties. So things that we know we need to be doing,

we just neglect doing them. And these can be physical tasks and they can also be spiritual tasks.

So another word for sloth, of course, is laziness. Sloth is different than the other sense that we've talked about, because sloth is more about inaction as opposed to action. A lot of the other sins like anger or greed that we'll get to next week.

These are when we're doing something, right?

We are doing something that is sinful.

Sloth is when we do not do what is good.

We do not do what we should be doing.

Oftentimes sloth is also indifference.

So in our world right now, there are many people that do not believe in God. And a lot of them have come to that conclusion that they don't believe in God

simply because they haven't done the work. They haven't read anything about God. They haven't

spent time praying or searching for God,

talking to people that believe in God. They just simply don't care. They're indifferent.

And because they haven't done anything, then they simply do not have any belief. And so sloth is sort of a creeping laziness that can take

things from us, like take our faith, take our family simply because we aren't doing what we need

to do to maintain those things. So that is sloth. Now all week, we are going to be focusing

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