1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
Aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
There is something amazingly spectacular about living a regular, day in-day out, hour by hour life for Christ. Faith is not just a mountain top Sunday morning experience, but a Tuesday afternoon just doing work.
To live for Christ means to be committed to having everything you need in Him and through His provision. This includes the air we breath, the energy He gives us, the opportunities He provides to us and the industry He allows us to participate in. He gives men shoulders in order to lift weights and carry heavy loads. He blesses us with good, hard work. It is hard, so we cry out to Him for help. It is good because without Him we would fall short.
May God grant you the ability to aspire, to zealously pursue with gusto and chutzpah the quiet life of shouldering heavy burdens and being reliable, dependable, resolute, dignified, integrous, and full of gravitas as you go about ordinary business.
Gravity is common, everyday, and often taken for granted, but it is powerful and consistent and gives us the ability to be grounded. Men are to be like that. Willing to be taken for granted and overlooked while zealously, fearlessly committed to doing work.
When we work hard to go unnoticed, guess what happens? People take notice. And what they see is something out of this world. And if they ask us the source of this, we reply, "You are correct. It is out of this world. It does not come up from within, but has been given to me as a gift from without." We point people to Christ by living quietly, working hard, walking properly and using God's blessing to meet our daily needs.
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