Busy Doing Nothing (Idle Tattlers)
Greetings sisters in Christ! I hope your day is going well? Just recently brother Jim asked an elderly man how he was doing and the man said "Do you mean it?" He then went on to talk about how people just casually ask that question but don't really mean anything behind it. Brother Jim assured him that he asked because he does care, which led to the proclamation of the gospel from brother Jim to this elderly man. It made me think of 1 Timothy 5 and the idle, tattling, busybody young widows who were busy doing nothing constructive. 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man. 10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. 11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wan...