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There are people who are busy all the time. They run here and there. They keep receiving and making calls, fixing appointments, scheduling and rescheduling, planning and executing, arranging and organizing. They are too busy.
In one sense this is very good. They are managing their time wisely. But there is one simple question here. What keeps them busy?
You might be surprised to note that Jesus already has answered that question for us. He pointed out: ``For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man'' (Matthew 24:38,39 NIV). Again, ``It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building ... It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed'' (Luke 17:2830 NIV).
``As it was then, so will it be'' when Jesus comes. Those people were very busy with their own things. They had no time for God. Eating, drinking, marrying, buying, selling, planting and building are all normal activities in which people engage in. Then in what sense does Jesus find fault with them? The answer to this question is of great importance.
The answer is that there is nothing wrong with all these activities. But Jesus is pointing out man's PREOCCUPATION with these normal things that makes them abnormal. Jesus is pointing out man's EXCLUSION OF GOD from his life as he includes more and more of such activities into his daily concerns and routine. In other words, God gets crowded out of man's life: ``In all his thoughts there is no room for God'' (Psalm 10:4b NIV).
What Jesus is emphasizing here is the worldly philosophy of ``eat, drink and be merry'' that would dominate the thinking of people in the last days. The people of the world including busy Christians would conveniently forget the fact that: ``Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment'' (Hebrews 9:27 NIV). Such an attitude of forgetfulness of eternal truths would lead to destructiona final and complete destruction!
So busy Christian, here is a question for you: ``What keeps you busy?''
Know that the smell of death and its stench rises from those busy bees you're so happily and ignorantly chasing. If God is not in your foremost thoughts, know that one day you will go down; bitten by its sting.
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