So, live quietly, mind your own affairs, and work with your hands
So, live quietly, mind your own affairs, and work with your hands as you wait for the call to be with Yeshua forever. This what we’re told to do as we wait for the upward call to be with our fiancée. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 This is rarely taught.
This verse is at the beginning of Paul’s revelation about that coming day with the blast of the trumpet when Jesus calls us, “Come!” That’s the message for us today. This what we are supposed to be doing as we wait. Paul finished it off in the next chapter:
“Be at peace among yourselves. And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all. Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit, do not despise prophesying, but test everything; hold fast what is good, abstain from every form of evil.” 1 Thessalonians 5: 13–22
So, live quietly, mind your own affairs, and work with your hands as you wait for the call
You may have a call to make a stand for the Lord. That’s good. But make sure it is the Lord calling you to do it. Here’s another verse, from the lips of our Messiah: “Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”Revelation 22: 11 At the center of all of this is mind your own affairs.
The Lord has given each of us something to do at this time. That is what we are to focus upon—being obedient to His call. If you do not know what that is, ask Jesus. Then be obedient to what He tells you. If you do not know how to hear from the Lord, that’s what you must do first. You will not hear the call unless you know His voice.
I’ll even give you the prayer. “Jesus, teach me how to know You and hear Your voice!” That prayer He will always answer.