But let me put this another way:
"activity can be a smokescreen for disobedience."
Now what do you think about that! Christian ministers like to boast about how busy they are, and they probably are very busy people. What do ministers do about the command, BE STILL? They live to be busy, and to be seen to be busy. Business is a great ploy to keep a minister from doing the work he has been called by God to do. Activism destroys ministries and churches. It sends Christians down a one way street. Devotion to Christ? - We've no time for that sort of thing. We're too busy. We have too many meetings to go to, too many committees to attend, too many conferences and seminars to participate in.
So why do we go to all things events? Because it makes us feel important, indispensable to the Kingdom of God. It is how we achieve significance, as they say.
But is our activity really a smokescreen for personal and habitual disobedience to God's revealed will in Scripture? Do those whose calling it is to minister the Word of God practice what they preach to others? How do husbands demonstrate their love for the wife and children when they are hardly ever there to show that love? Is their activity really a smokescreen for disobedience?
How much of your activity can be done without? Really done without. How much of it is essential to the work of the ministry?
Let every man examine himself to see whether he be in the faith.
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