Today the trait of multitasking is becoming common among every one whether man, women or child, we are pressured into taking on several tasks at the same time. In the scenario of the average working family the mom gets home and begins to cook, help the kids with the homework, pick up around the house and answer the phone at the same time. The husband gets home as he eats his supper engages to help with the homework, pick up the dishes, and goes back to finish un-finished business. Our routines in the multitasking box seems to be all we can handle, and therefore, we find it hard to add to our plate another task. When we add another task to our plate many times it will not last, because we do not find the time to do it; we become idle to it, and once in a while we will work it.
Matthew 20:6-7
6 And about the [f]eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he *said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’ 7 They *said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He *said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’
This land owner needed help in his field and, so he went out to find workers and at various times he found people to work. Immediately they went to work and like God this landowner needed more employees, and so he went out to find others work. He noticed that a group of people which were there each time he went to hire continued to stay there idle and did not adhere to his offer of employment. It seems that they did not want to be employed by this landowner and when we do not want to do something we become idle to it. Now, idle deals with laziness and Salomon said that someone who is lazy will suffer hunger (Pr. 19:15). There are many reasons why we become lazy to some things and active participants to other. Part of why we become lazy to some things might be because we do not like it, we fear, it is our nature to be lazy, or not enough time.
In order for the Christian life style to really work idleness cannot exist. When we decide to follow after Christ persistence must conquer, it has to take priority in our plate of multitasking. We need to step up in the level of priorities the place of our relationship with Christ. We cannot put our life in Christ to idleness, because we don’t know when we will need those resources that come; whether in the evening or in the morning (Ecc. 11:6). Luke wrote to the church about not becoming lazy, because there are God made promises that are inherited when we work towards them (He.6:12). There are things that come into our lives when we practice idleness that are not welcome. Just because we are idle does not mean that the external forces are idle things tend to leak in (Ecc. 10:18). Part of the what comes through from idleness in the Christian life is disruptiveness (2Thes 3:6); the routine that is being established is compromised and neglected.