Do your work!

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;” 1 Thessalonians 4v11 (KJV)

“This should be your ambition: to live a quiet life, minding your own business and doing your own work, just as we told you before.” 1 Thessalonians 4v11 (TLB)

One way I look at minding one’s business is as opposed to minding other people’s business. While as Christians we are encouraged to “Share each other’s troubles and problems,” (Galatians 6v2, TLB), which is in obedience to the Lord’s commands, we are not to be busy bodies in other people’s lives and businesses. One advice to discourage against it is to be diligent with your own affairs, look well to your own work, and work hard at whatever is put in your way to do. Galatians 6v4 (TLB) says “Let everyone be sure that he is doing his very best, for then he will have the personal satisfaction of work well done and won’t need to compare himself with someone else.” Don’t be idle! 2 Thessalonians 3v10-12 (AMP) says “For while we were yet with you, we gave you this rule and charge: If anyone will not work, neither let him eat. Indeed, we hear that some among you are disorderly [that they are passing their lives in idleness, neglectful of duty], being busy with other people’s affairs instead of their own and doing no work. Now we charge and exhort such persons [as ministers in Him exhorting those] in the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) that they work in quietness and earn their own food and other necessities.“

Supplementary Text

“Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.” Ephesians 4v28 (NIV)

Prayer

Father, we thank You for Your Word. We thank You because You prosper the work of our hands. We pray for those who might be looking for work at this time, and ask that You will provide for them in Jesus name, amen.