Sunflower Faith

1 Thessalonian 4:11-12

For those who know me pretty well, I’m pretty much a private person.

My life is pretty quiet and boring and uninteresting in many ways.

I like to keep to myself mostly because unless I and someone have taken the time to build up a relationship and develop that trust and confidence that time can only bring, its hard for me to just share that much about my personal life.

For the most part, I just try (didn’t say I was perfect), just be there to be both support and encouragement, or the court jester if the time called for that.

It’s just me.

I am by nature and in real life, really, a very shy, quiet, keep to myself person. That is just who I am.

If my friends and family were to vote what I am, I would most likely win the “Most likely not to do”.

¹¹ 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, ¹² that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing. (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12, New King James Version)

MHC shares,

“We should notice in others what is good, to their praise, that we may engage them to abound therein more and more. All who are savingly taught of God, are taught to love one another. The teaching of the Spirit exceeds the teachings of men; and men’s teaching is vain and useless, unless God teach. Those remarkable for this or any other grace, need to increase therein, as well as to persevere to the end.

It is very desirable to have a calm and quiet temper, and to be of a peaceable andquiet behaviour. Satan is busy to trouble us; and we have in our hearts what disposes us to be unquiet; therefore let us study to be quiet. Those who are busy-bodies, meddling in other men’s matters, have little quiet in their own minds, and cause great disturbances among their neighbours.

They seldom mind the other exhortation, to be diligent in their own calling, to work with their own hands. Christianity does not take us from the work and duty of our particular callings, but teaches us to be diligent therein. People often by slothfulness reduce themselves to great straits, and are liable to many wants; while such as are diligent in their own business, earn their own bread, and have great pleasure in so doing. (1Th 4:13-18)

The sun rises and the sun sets and I have my family.

As I share, the order of whom I feel I need to serve and be accountable to:

1. God, our Father (Matthew 6:33 & 10:37-39; Luke 14:33; Mark 12:30-31; Proverbs 31:30; Psalm 88:13; Psalm 1:1-3)
2. My husband  (Genesis 2:18-20, 3:16; Ephesians 5:22-24; 1 Corinthians 11:3, 8-9; 1 Timothy 2:13, 3:4-5; Titus 2:3-5)
3. My children  (Psalm 78:3-5; Titus 2:4; Deuteronomy 6:7; Proverbs 10:1; Proverbs 13:24; Proverbs 19:18; Proverbs 29:17; Malachi 2:15; Hebrews 12:8)
4. Then outside the home in all forms (1 Timothy 2:10, 5:9-10; 1 Corinthians 12:7: Acts 9:36; 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12; Romans 12:10 & 13: 1 Peter 4:9-11)

…Our ministry starts at the home first. No one comes before the family and particularly our Heavenly Father. This may mean that nobody will know or see what we have done, except the one person who does, will and always see, our Father in Heaven.

¹⁰ For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ. (Galatians 1:10, New King James Version)

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Sunflower Faith is a quiet, sometimes silly, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes serious, follower of Christ sharing words of devotion, encouragement and hope that is always about our Father in Heaven. So grab a cup of coffee and join Sunflower Faith in words of growth, hope and more all in the spirit of 2 Peter 1:5-8.

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