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Minding Your Own Business

Aim to live quietly, mind your own business, and earn your own living, just as I told you.

—1 Thessalonians 4:11

It might sound a little harsh for you to be told to “mind your own business,” but it’s also wise counsel. Living quietly, going about your business, and earning your own living are certainly worthy goals. So what’s your business?

Your profession aside, the rest of your business has to do with your heart and with perfecting your soul to reflect more of the divine Spirit. Your business is to keep growing, keep watching, and keep learning.

Thomas à Kempis offered us this thought, “A pure, simple, and steadfast spirit is not distracted by the number of things to be done, because it performs them all to the honor of God, and endeavors to be at rest from self-seeking.”

Tend toward becoming more of the person God meant you to be.

Your work is cut out for you, and today is another gracious opportunity to see what you can do to earn the kind of living that pays off for others because you’ve grown in the spirit of truth and have so much more to give.

Go about your business with joy.

Don’t be distracted from becoming who God wants you to be.

QUIET THE WAVES

Lord, thank you for being involved in my business. Help me to become all that you meant me to become and to live quietly and joyfully in you. Amen.