“The Power of a Quiet Life”

9 About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more, 11 to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 so that you may behave properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone. – 1 Thessalonians 4.9-12 (CSB)

If you’re an elder, pastor, ministry leader, and/or teacher of God’s word, please watch or listen to this message. If you don’t have any of these rolls within your church community, please still watch or listen to this message. The call to live a quiet life comes from the pages of Scripture and yet is sorely ignored and, often times, explained away in the name of ministry or “reaching the lost.” But if we’re really honest, a lot of it is ego and a desire to be desired. I’m still a work on progress, fighting the fleshly desires to be needed, but I praise God that I am no longer in bondage to this and that the quiet life is what I now truly desire. Praise God for his grace and goodness.

Please forgive me, Father, for competing with receiving the glory that is due you. Thank you for rest. Thank you for quiet. Thank you that you are enough. Even if I am in any way trying to be noticed by sharing this with my brothers and sisters, please convict me of it so that I might delete this blog. I want to be faithful in walking with you so that you are exalted and honored before the world as the greatest. Only you deserve that place, that title. May I be content with being forgotten about, living joyfully behind the scenes and pointing people one at a time to you.