Have you ever been praying and glorying God and suddenly you are bombarded with judgmental thoughts about others? Well that happened to me; I found myself entertaining these thoughts. Realizing what I was doing, I immediately stopped and said, “Wait, this is none of my business!” As soon as I said it, I sensed an air of freedom, and recalled 1 Thessalonians 4:11 , “study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands.”
God has a plan for us all and if we are focused on others we are distracted from our own purpose. So why should we mind our own business? In verse 12a it states, “That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without.” Jesus understood the purpose for his life in Luke where he reads from the book of Isaiah which states, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives,” etc. From what He read there are people who are without, and as we know, we are to do greater in quantity then He. The benefit of minding our own business allows us to walk in love and in truth toward them that need the light of the Word that we possess. Not only does minding our own business benefit others, but as it states in the latter part of 1 Thessalonians 4:12b “that we may lack nothing.” When you are focused on God and attentive to the voice of the Holy Spirit you will find that God is directing your life on a course of prosperity.
Minding your own business sounds pretty good to me!
Peace
Minister Anisha “Preach” Bowman
