How's your work ethic?

I feel like my blogging sucks lately. I think I tend to want to write mediocre things rather than wait for some really good idea to come along, so...I'll try and fix this.

Matthew 24:42-44 says "Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But undersand this: if the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him."

You know when you were in school and you did your work while the teacher was in the room or standing near you, but as soon as the teacher left (or whenever you had a substitute, really), you stopped working? Honestly, I still do that sometimes [I don't think any of my classrooms should have computers with internet on them because facebook is ridiculously distracting]. Anyways, the good thing about those times is that your teacher wasn't God, and yea sometimes they probably knew you weren't doing any work. Most of the time, though, you're able to hide that.

I think it's funny that I act like there are times when it's okay for me to not be doing any work for God. Like He's left the room for a minute and I have some time to slack off. Like He's turned His back for a second and I can take a break. I like this part of the passage because Jesus basically says "You're never going to know when I'm coming back, so stop guessing. You'll always be wrong, so don't worry about it. Just keep working like I'm still here. Just keep doing what I've called you to do, even when you think I'm not watching."
I'm not sure how we convince ourselves that He's not constantly watching, but He is. And when we stop working for Him, He knows, and my guess would be that it hurts Him. His efforts and all of the things He's taught us get lost sometimes; we're too easily distracted, too easily satisfied by things less than Him and we stop working.