You know people who are busy by themselves? Like there are more fires to put out that you started than there is time in the world and things to do. Maybe that’s you. You aren’t busy taking care of things, you are busy doing things.

Call it procrastinating, or poor planning, or bad time management, it doesn’t matter what you call it, simply put it is distracted and it makes you a busybody.

Nothing is accomplished except you are doing things. At least if you are legitimately busy taking care of things the list of things goes down. But when you are a busybody, you are just chasing your own tail in a circle.

For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. (2 Thessalonians 3:11 ESV)

The Apostle Paul compares busybodies to idle people or lazy people. You are a busybody and meddler if you got so much going on in your life that it starts to ooze into the lives of the people around you.

There is a difference between busy people who have things to take care of and busybodies that cause things to be dealt with. When we are busy we can stay focused on what matters most and manage the tasks in our lives.

However, when we are lazy and lose sight of the work we are called to do, we begin meddling where we don’t belong and as such we miss out on doing what we know is best because we are dealing with the circumstances that we meddled in.

We want to be busy with work in our lives. It keeps us grounded in faith, able to see why God is working and how God is working.

When we deviate from busy doing work by doing busywork, we miss out on God’s power in our lives. Let’s not be busybodies.