ASPIRE TO LIVE QUIETLY!
Text: I Thessalonians 4:10b-12… But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more; that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing. — God wants us to live a quiet life...did you hear what I said? GOD WANTS us to live a quiet life! It is very precious to Him. He says in I Pet. 3:4 that a meek and quiet spirit is not just precious...but VERY precious. — Now, I think everyone likes a quiet and peaceful life…it seems to be a universal longing of all humanity deep down in our souls…but did you know that it is not simply a preferable lifestyle of ours, but a God ordained will for us? It is. It most certainly is. But, WE must aspire to make it so, and diligently study or work to make it so. But, how? Not by simply changing externals, although it might sometimes help a bit (eg. moving to another state, getting