I remember my transition from High-School to college. Ahhh...the glory of no bells that ring, no parents that yell, and all-you-can-eat food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
College seemed significantly easier to me than High-School was and it took me some time to put my finger on why that was. Eventually I came to the realization that College had less "Busy Work." You know? That work intended to keep a classroom full of high-school students busy and free from learning. That work that had no value other than giving the teacher a well-deserved (under most circumstances) break.
Matthew 12:38-39 says, "Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, 'Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.' But he answered them, 'An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah."
This is one of multiple times that the Pharisees get rejected by Jesus when they request signs from him. Why? After-all, Jesus could just show them a sign, that doesn't seem like a whole lot to ask for from the creator of the universe.
Jesus only had so much time.
He wasn't about to waste his time on busy work. The Pharisees were people who had neglected all of his signs thus far and were so caught up in their own "righteousness" that all of the signs he had already produced were completely ignored.
For Jesus, this was "Busy Work."
Life has a way of distracting us; of manipulating us.
You only have so much time.
Do you let life distract you? Are you caught up in your job, or your next big success? So caught up that your next step forward in your relationship with God has been set on the back-burner?
We are foolish people. We invest our lives in little successes here and there to only find ourselves damned to hell at the end of our life. Is it worth it to you? If it is, then continue in your way, find yourself not dedicating your life to God, not investing your life in other people, not resting in the easy arms of Jesus.
For you, this is "Busy Work."
The person who invests there life in success; in busy work, is the finest of pharisees.
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves."
Are you busy?
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