Aspire To Live A Quiet Life

-October 17, 2025-

Good morning beloved, happy Friday,

“That you also aspire to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.”

(1 Thessalonians 4:11).

It is good to have aspirations in life. There are important things that we hope to live up to. This is especially true of believers in Christ.

You know me, I love definitions. The word aspire is defined as, “to direct one’s hopes or ambitions towards achieving something; to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal.”

As Christians, we should have high aspirations to live for the Lord and serve Him; to speak of and glorify His name. Paul gives us the simple recipe to living a quiet life. A quiet life is not a silent life, instead it is a life where you walk matches your talk.

There are many voices, noisy voices all around us. The voice we want to hear is the voice of the Lord. Solomon wrote in Proverbs 17:1, “ Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.”

Paul encourages us to mind our own business and to work with our own hands. Both of these two things will keep us out of a lot of trouble.

• Mind your own business – There is always the temptation to involve ourselves in things that we shouldn’t involve ourselves in, like into other’s personal business. If they If they don’t ask for our advice, we shouldn’t give it. Proverbs 26:17 says, “He who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a dog by the ears.” It is never good for the dog or for the person.

• Work with your our own hands – We used to call people “freeloaders” who don’t work and just live off others even though they are quite capable of working and supporting themselves and their families. Work never hurts anyone; it just takes effort.

May the Lord help us to aspire to live quiet lives by minding our own business and by working with our own hands. We can do it with the Lord’s help. Have a blessed day. Stay safe and healthy.

When things are not your own, just leave them alone; when there is work to be done, we should not from it shun.

Dean