I don’t know about you, but with the changing weather lately, I just haven’t wanted to do anything. I have had no motivation to go outside because everything is wet and cold, and when I am inside, I literally just want to be a couch potato. Does anyone else feel this way?

It wasn’t until I did this study on diligence that I realized that I was being the exact opposite. I was in fact being slothful by allowing myself to stop caring or not see things as important. I lacked energy, concern or motivation about doing the tasks I had been given, but… I know now that something definitely needed to change… and quickly.

Diligence is visualizing each task as a special assignment from the Lord and using all my energies to accomplish it. Well,…I definitely wasn’t doing that. So, first I need to refocus the way I was thinking. Then I needed to ask God for diligence and choose to be faithful in the tasks He gives me, no matter how small.

Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. (Just as God enables us in the small things, he will help us in the big as well.)

Realizing why or how something is important motivates us to work hard to accomplish it. Our eagerness to do the task is diligence.

An example of a special assignment from God that may or may not seem important at the time, is our schoolwork as a child.

He wants us to learn:
Reading – So that he can speak to us through His work.
Science – So we can see his awesome power and intricate design in creation.
History – So we can understand how he worked in the past.
Math – So we know how to function effectively each day of our lives.

As kids we probably didn’t fully understand that our daily homework was a God given task. But looking back at it, we can understand the importance of learning those lessons and maybe we wish that we had taken them a little more seriously.

God has called each and every one of us to do great things. The questions we need to ask ourselves today are, What tasks are before you right now? Are you giving all your energies to accomplish them today? Or are you being slothful, as I was, because of the weather, business of life, or simply no desire?

Just think about it today. Are you being diligent or Slothful?