Ever Wonder Why You are Lazy?
March 13th, 2010
A comment directed to pastors, but…applicable to all of us.
“I believe the roots of clerical sloth are theological rather than primarily psychological. We become lazy and slovenly in our work because we have lost the theological rationale for the work.”
William Willimon, Proclamation and Theology, page 72:
File under: “Ouch, truth hurts!”
HT: Reformation 21.
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Categories: Christian Life
“Whoever does not work is a thief and robs his neighbor in two ways. First, he permits others to work for him and nourishes himself from their ‘blood and sweat.’ Second, he withholds what he ought to give his neighbor.” (Althaus, “The Ethics of Martin Luther,” 102)
Yes it does. I still pull out my dog eared copy of “The Pastor at Prayer” because many of Kraus’s prayers speak of the sin of sloth. A retired pastor once explained slothfulness in that it wasn’t so much being lazy as it was busying oneself with many minor things that can wait, or doing work for ourselves that we should delegate and so neglecting what we are called to do.
kind of reminds me of a work by Luther (translated by a certain blogger) on how to ponder properly the Passion, which said that the cure for laziness was to see how hard Christ worked on the Cross.