Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. Then people who are not believers will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 (NLT)
It seems that there are “busybodies” everywhere we turn, people that make it a point to be in your business and if they can’t find something of interest in your life to talk about, they will make something up.
Television shows almost always have a nosy neighbor, remember Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched?
These are the people that keep an eye on everything just to make sure they have the best knowledge (to their belief) of what is going on.
Sometimes they get so concerned over what someone else is doing, they forget to take care of their own lives.
Paul reminds the new Christ followers in Thessalonica that they should go about their daily chores in a way that would increase their independence and the busybodies would have nothing to discuss.
We should live our lives in a respectful and productive way, this will give busybodies less to gossip about in the first place.
I am sure that those people will still try to damage our reputations by creating stories about us but stay strong in your faith because those that know us will know the truth.
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