MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS – PART 4

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS – LEARN TO PROMOTE PEACE, PATIENCE, AND POSITIVITY

This is my last message regarding mind your own business. But out of these four messages, I hope and pray the ones who need to hear this (all of us) will at least think about how it affects them and the people around them. Jesus was no meddler. Luke 12:13-14 Then someone in the crowd told him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.” But Jesus asked him, “Mister, who appointed me to be a judge or arbitrator over you people?”

The mission of the meddler is to get as many as they can to divulge theirs and anyone else’s story and secrets, then tell it to the world (maybe not that far out) but gossip spreads like wildfire. Some meddlers want to have a following so they get the unsuspecting prey into their little circle, and eventually they begin to think the way they (the meddler) think. Thus, promoting a form of control.

Now I know you are asking yourself the question “What does this have to do with promoting peace, patience, and positivity?” Well to interfere in others life is like blocking up a stream of water. First, you have a steady flow; they’re going along the path set before them (whether its smooth sailing, climbing the rough side of the mountain, time in the valley; whatever God’s allowances for them, not man to hone, strengthen, and reveal their next step in life). But the meddler comes along, being impatient with the choses, outcomes, or having to wait that their family member, friend, etc., are at a stagnant place in their life, so, the meddler wants to fix it. This causes disruptions and corruption, whether in a home, church, or government, because in the end, it will eventually go wrong; there will be no peace because the meddler’s motives are not what they should be. And did not have the patience to take his/her family member or friend to God, through Jesus for the answers which would have and always is, a positive move for all of us to make. The meddler feels that he/she has to be in constant contact with their victim(s)relaying nonsense and saying things they should not say. Always expecting the victim to ask him/her, the controller, for the next step.  Especially if the plan is that of their victim, yet he/she cannot see where it is going. 1 Timothy 5:13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.

You will find that the one who thinks he has to tell everyone what to do and how to do it exude such steadiness, courage, and sense of purpose in their conviction to extract the flawed, defective way of thinking from their victim (the wrong way) and download their way, (the correct way, they think), of thinking into them. A person like that, is very determined to carry out their self-given, self-driven mission of getting everyone else to the goal they have set for them, even when they have been told to mind their own business. Their lives are a shamble, but they cannot see it; to them, it is great in their own mind. 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, 12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

1. Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

2. 2 Thessalonians 3:10-11 While we were with you, we gave you the order: “Whoever doesn’t want to work shouldn’t be allowed to eat.” We hear that some of you are not living disciplined lives. You’re not working, so you go around interfering in other people’s lives.

3. Proverbs 26:17 A person who is passing by and meddles in a quarrel that’s not his is like one who grabs a dog by the ears.

4. 2 Thessalonians 3:6 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us.

5. 1 Timothy 5:13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.