A QUIET LIFE
“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 NLT)
Tranquility is not synonymous with laziness and wasting time. Living peacefully doesn’t mean that we don’t do anything. We have to work, eat, study, clean the house and wash clothes so we can dress and smell good.
May I suggest a life application for a tranquil life: a life with peace.
The Bible Says: 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 NLT).
1. Just do what brings you to a goal of peace. Don’t fill yourself with many unnecessary occupations on these days. People get stressed by doing so many things that aren’t necessary.
2. Don’t try to please everyone. People get unnecessarily stressed when they feel the pressure to attend all invitations they receive, participate in all social events, dress in fashion like everyone else, give gifts to everyone around them, etc.
3. Don’t spend what you don’t have. Live with a budget wisely. People lose their tranquility many times, for not having control over their finances. They are well-meaning individuals, they are spiritual people, they pray regularly and attend church, but they have no control over their financial life and this adds stress and doesn’t allow them to have a life of tranquility.
4. Live in forgiveness. Don’t hold on to resentment. Resolve pending conflicts at home and with important people in your life. Forgive and ask for forgiveness.
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 NLT).
Think about it:
What is causing you stress at this time? What things are you doing that aren’t necessary? Are you spending more than you have? What people do you have to forgive to live with peace in your heart?