Are you minding your own business?

Be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger- James 1:19

11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

Have you ever heard the expression “Mind your own business”? If we, as believers, are going to accomplish anything worthy of our Lord, we must work together. That cannot happen, though, unless we work hard at getting along. Involved in our getting along is a balance between knowing when it is time to speak up and when it is time to mind our own business.

Peter 4:15-16 says: 15 By no means let any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler; 16 but if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not feel ashamed, but in that name let him glorify God.

What is a troublesome meddler? A meddler is one who minds other peoples’ business – one who, as we say, "puts his nose into other people’s affairs." Don’t you just love it when someone who has a hard time running his or her own life, butts in and tries to run yours? Now put yourself as the one who is meddling, do you enjoy making someone else’s life miserable, with the constant rumors you spread, sometimes a defenseless person. I want you to take time and realize that many have even taken their own lives because of people like you meddling in their business and spreading lie after lie about them.

This is against everything God stands for…As a Christian I know I personally will not be ashamed as it says in the Book of Peter in the Bible, I will continue to glorify my Heavenly Father. It is time we get back to treating others the way we want to be treated. Those that are busy minding other people’s business probably do not have any worthwhile business of their own. Instead of being quiet, they are busy causing problems for others. 2 Thess. 3:11; 11For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. 1 Pet. 4:15 15But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters..) Believers that are about their Father’s business (Luke. 2:49 49And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?) will not have the time or desire to be mixed up in the affairs of others. If we are to “walk in wisdom towards those who are without,” (Col. 4:5) then we must be willing to apply God’s wisdom and not our own.


Ask God for wisdom to live your life according to God’s will. God bless you my friends…