7. A Spiritual Sloth Ignores the Greatest Commandment. “Just then a religious scholar stood before Jesus in order to test His doctrines. He posed this question: ‘Teacher, rabbi, what requirement must I fulfill if I want to live forever in heaven?’ Jesus replied, ‘What does Moses teach us? What do you read in the Law?’ The …
6. A Spiritual Sloth Will Never Become a True Saint. “If you consult your own soul with complete honesty, you will see that there is one and only one reason why you are not even now a saint. You do not wholly want to be.” (William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life). Spiritual …
5. A Spiritual Sloth is an Unfruitful Garden. ‘You must think of yourself as of one setting out to make a garden in which the Lord is to take His delight.” (St. Teresa of Avila). Spiritual Sloth: (Greek, “Acedia”); spiritual laziness; indifference and apathy at the deeper levels; lack of spiritual ambition; joyless in sacred pleasures; spiritual …
4. A Spiritual Sloth Refuses to Explore God. “Seek first and foremost the Kingdom of God and His righteousness… For everyone who continues to seek will find. Be a seeker!” (Matthew 6:33, 7:7-8). Spiritual Sloth: (Greek, “Acedia”); spiritual laziness; indifference and apathy at the deeper levels; lack of spiritual ambition; joyless in sacred pleasures; spiritual ennui; careless …
3. A Spiritual Sloth is Lukewarm and Turns God’s Stomach. Spiritual Sloth: (Greek, “Acedia”); spiritual laziness; indifference and apathy at the deeper levels; lack of spiritual ambition; joyless in sacred pleasures; spiritual ennui; careless attitude toward spiritual matters; a dispassionate lack of mindfulness and soul-care; a listless ignorance of what is eternally important; empty of the …
2. A Spiritual Sloth Does Not Hunger and Thirst for God’s Righteousness. “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what …
1. The Spiritual Sloth – Defining Our Terms. “Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep seeking and you will find. Keep knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who continues to ask receives, and the one who continues to seek finds, and to the one who keeps knocking …
A Song of Hope – “Be Ye Glad” “God delights in those who hope in His mercy, who eagerly expect His lovingkindness.” (Psalm 147:11). Hope Described. Various descriptions of hope might include: Hope is confidently expecting a positive outcome, as opposed to despair, which is fearfully expecting a negative outcome; hope is trusting God for one’s future, as …
HOPE is God’s Middle Name. “He says in his poem that the three virtues of faith, hope and love are like three sisters: two of them are grown and the one in the middle is a small child. They go forward together hand in hand, with the child hope in the middle. Looking at them, …
The Hope of Glory with Christ in Us. [this article is in process, so please wait to read this until it is finished] “I have become its servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness – the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, …
Hope and Love. “We are God’s house as long as we keep our courage and hold firm to the end our joyful and exultant confidence and sense of triumph in our hope in Christ.” (Hebrews 3:6). Hope Described. “Hope moves the heart of God to come to our help with His grace.” (Cantalamessa).Various descriptions of hope might …
Hopeful Grieving. “We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, and we don’t want you to be in the dark about this question any longer. First off, you don’t have to grieve over them as others do who have no hope. When you mourn, you don’t need …