Beware the Internet Idler
Filed under {!-- ra:000000005ee980bc000000002d2e557a --}{if 'Beware the Internet Idler' == '52home' && category_name == '52home'} Biblical Womanhood | Time Management {if:else} Biblical Womanhood | Time Management {/if}“Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.” 1 Timothy 5:13
”I’m glad I’m not like that” is often my first response when I come across one of these unflattering portraits in Scripture.
Surely I don’t bear any resemblance to these lazy, gossipy young widows? I work each day to serve my family. I get up early. I clean, cook, drive, counsel, encourage, wash, iron and pray. I don’t spend my mornings on the couch clicking the remote or my afternoons gossiping with the neighbors.
But have I “learned to be an idler” through my online habits? Going from Facebook page to Facebook page?
This verse highlights a particular danger of the Internet: it can lure us into idleness. We may not be “going about from house to house” physically, but doing it virtually instead.
So I must ask myself: Have I become an Internet idler?
It may be that I bear more resemblance to these idle young women than I thought at first.