How’s it said?
“Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.”
You won’t find that in the Bible, except for the 1971 Living Bible (a paraphrased text) in Proverbs 16:27.
Even so, the saying has a point. If we’re not doing something useful, our free time opens an opportunity to get ourselves into trouble doing something other than we should.
2 Thessalonians 3:11-12 tells us of this exact situation in the early church.
“For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.”
How can we put this delicately? They were letting other people do the work so that they could play . . . and stir up trouble. They became busybodies, always in other’s people’s business, trying to control what was none of their business.
Marlene’s marriage is her business, not yours.
What business is it of yours whether Chuck pays his tithes? That’s between him and God.
That new car . . . vacation plans . . . how often they mow their grass . . . so, get a job and you won’t have time to worry about any of this.
As the verse says:
“We command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.”
Busybodies not allowed. Enough said.
Praise the Lord for his eternal goodness in our lives, and may his goodness extend to all people throughout the realms of the earth.
Jesus is our Prince of Peace, and there is no dissention or miscommunication in him.
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