"Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before." - 1 Thessalonians 4:11
As I was reading this morning I came across the above verse. After Paul's encouragement to the church to live a pure life and love this verse comes up. Does this verse mean we should go around life and not be heard? Does it ask us to not speak out about the problems of the world? I don't see that at all. Living the quiet life is to live it in such a way that we are known by our life more than our words. It is easy to spout off at the mouth about the sins of the world. It is not so easy to live the life that we are calling the world to live.
Working with our hands is a phrase that becoming a unheard of. Some of the people in Thessalonica had become lazy and idle. They were looking for hand outs and almost believe they deserved them. This is much like people today. How will the world respect you if you lived an idle life? We as Christians should be the ones working the hardest. When they see we are driven to love, live and work hard people will wonder why.
Our ambition or goal in life should be to be an example of Christ in ALL ways. And YES that means at work too.
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