I recently started reading 1 Samuel. Besides the sobering reality that finishing a race is more important than starting it with zeal, one thing stuck out to me:
Samuel minded his business when everyone was a hot mess around him.
Let me show you what I mean.
Hannah is totally infertile and having to share a man with another woman.
That's drama.
The sons of Eli were worthless and corrupt.
That's frustrating. And infuriating.
I would want to inform them of all their wrongdoings.
That's meddling in other people's business.
Eli didn't talk to his sons or discipline then early enough.
That's like being around a friend who's kids are brats.
I'd want to say something.
This is what scripture tells us Samuel was doing throughout all of this mess:
- "But the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli and the priest" 1 Samuel 2:11
- "Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord" 1 Samuel 2:18
- Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men" 1 Samuel 2:26
Over and over again these little sentences keep popping up throughout all the drama, sin, and mess in 1Samuel. And it really stood out to me.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 says, "Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before."
Sometimes I think we have a habit of meddling in other people's business.
To inform them of what they should do.
To talk about drama happening around us.
But perhaps, if we worry about ourselves, just continually seek the Lord and get in the quiet place with Him daily, we will not be distracted from everyday junk.
1 Timothy 2:4 says, "No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of
everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a
soldier."
And we are soldiers.
So I keep hearing:
"Meg, mind 'yo business"
Here's to minding our own business.
Happy training...
xoxo,
mp
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