Creation Moments

Mark W. Cadwallader: Meet a real sloth. Next on today's Creation Moment. And now here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Some creatures are so bizarre that they suggest a lesson to us. Even in their strangeness, we see that they have been perfectly provided for by the Creator. One such example is the three-toed sloth. It rarely moves, spending about 18 hours a day sleeping upside down in a tree.

When it does bother to move, it is in ultra-slow motion. The three-toed sloth doesn't do very well on the ground because he cannot walk or even crawl. If a sloth is placed on the ground, it very slowly pulls itself along on its belly to a tree. Here, sloths hang effortlessly in the trees even when asleep. Their grasp of the tree is so solid that they continue to hang in the trees even after they've died.

Even though sloths are hunted for food by the South American Indians, the three-toed sloth is the most abundant tree-dwelling mammal in South America's forests. Because its life doesn't seem to amount to much, it was named after one of the so-called seven deadly sins. This creature that has a face that only a mother could love presents an image with which neither child nor adult would want to be associated.

Yet the sloth still has God's care. The nearly helpless condition of the sloth reminds us that we are completely helpless when it comes to our relationship with God. Only because of the efforts of our Savior Jesus Christ do we have peace with God. Let's not be slothful about telling others of the forgiveness of sins.

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