The great majority of us are very busy people. With employment, family, and past times we rarely have time to put something else on our plates. Many do not want to stay idle in their homes or through out their lives. Becoming busy has become a need, and they just cannot live with out it. It is a healthy thing to be busy, but being idle though it feels good and at times is needed should not be the way of a Christian. Idle, the simple meaning is

• : not working, active, or being used

• : not having any real purpose or value

• : not having much activity.

One can can become stuck in idleness after being used by God and forget what and how it is to have purpose in God. Now, idleness can come by either self or by God himself.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

¹¹ We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.

Something happened to some of the members of the church at Thessalonian, they found themselves to be finished with their mission as Christ’s laborers and were waiting idle for his return; an error in bible teachings. And, like in every church their were also some who were let down or disappointed some how during their service and became idle. For whatever reason, God does not want us to be idle; we must be actively involved in the ministry of Christ (Lk 12:42-44). This one father sent his two sons to his field to work and one said yes but did not go and the other said no and went (Mt. 21:28-30). We learn that idleness is a state of the heart and it is combated with repentance as it happened to the one son who said no but later repented and went. It does not matter how tiresome one might get, when it comes to serving God we should not become idle (Gal. 6:9). Idleness affects not just our lives but our home and families (Ecc.10:18).We can become idle by God’s will or of our choosing. God determines who shall serve him; he is the one who puts in us the will to do his will (Phil. 2:13).