Idle Time

Idle Time

  

Ever feel like people

have nothing better to do

with their time?

Idle hands make busybodies;

busybodies…meddlers, gossips.

You don’t have to be unemployed

to be a busybody.

Of all the great temptations afflicting

the modern church,

heresies, faithlessness,

idolatry, false worship;

being a busybody seems to be a minor sin.

After all, everybody does it!

It is tough for us to mind our own business

and not meddle in the affairs of others.

God doesn’t take

as light of view

as we do.

1 Peter 4:15 puts the sin

of being a meddler

in the same light

as murderer, thief, or evil doer.

It is the sin that’s destructive power

can rip families apart,

destroy relationships,

and dived and embitter

whole communities.

It stems from the original sin;

Adam wanted to be like God.

He wanted to have the knowledge

of good and evil.

He meddled in the affairs of God –

wanting to be like God.

The original sin was more than

stealing a piece of fruit…

or breaking a rule.

Adam blasphemed the nature of God

by trying to take to himself

the attributes of God.

He was minding God’s business;

thinking he could do a better job.

We have inherited that trait.

We often think we can do a better job

and people should do things our way.

Use your time wisely…

Mind your own business –

When it is none of your business!

 Scripture Reading

2 Thessalonians 3:11-15 NIV

11 We hear that some among you are idle.

They are not busy;

they are busybodies.

12 Such people we command

and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ

to settle down

and earn the bread they eat.

13 And as for you, brothers,

never tire of doing what is right.

14 If anyone does not obey

our instruction in this letter,

take special note of him.

Do not associate with him,

in order that he may feel ashamed.

15 Yet do not regard him as an enemy,

but warn him as a brother.