Mom Heart Moments #229

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands.

THE WORLD IS NOISY, busy, active, loud, relentless.

The Bible says, “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life” (1 Thessalonians 4:11). The world promotes power, money, things.

The Bible says, “Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven” (Matthew 6:20). The world says, “Beauty is on the outside.”

The Bible says, “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). The world says leadership is found in position and power.

The Bible says, “Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it” (Matthew 16:25). The world says, “Do something great you can be proud of.”

Jesus built deep relationships for three years with a dozen men and a few others in a community of friends. His ministry was small and personal, meeting needs, eating meals, living life with a focused few, serving them. He never traveled more than a hundred miles from Galilee. He never wrote a book, spoke on television, wrote a blog, or lived prominently.

Yet more words and books have been written about Him than any other. Lives have been changed, centuries of history rendered totally different because of the power of truth lived out and spoken from the quiet, gentle, humble life Christ lived during His time on the earth.

Could Jesus still live through me, faithfully, quietly, personally, powerfully, right where I am, so the impact of my life of integrity would reach the far corners of the earth if I lived according to His ways and not the world’s?

How should this apply to you and help determine your priorities and values as you seek to live for God’s glory? How can you live a servant-oriented, children-valuing, eternity-focused life, centered on listening to Him and closing out the voices of the world?