This is a common statement that is used frequently on our need to concentrate on the things that concern us and leave others alone. Naturally seeks to control the lives of others and wanting them to do this the way he wants or thinks is best and when do done according to the rules, he is quick to criticize, judge and condemn.
We are asked in Rom 14:4, who are you to judge the servant of another, it is before his own master he stands or falls, he will stand for the Lord is able to make him stand. It is the same as you having someone working in your house and also your neighbor having someone working for him. It is not your business to judge the way your neighbor’s servant is working or even telling him how he should work, he Is not your servant. Let your neighbor tell him what to do, it’s his responsibility. In the same way, we become servants of the Lord, Rom 6:22, when we are freed from sin. Each of us is directly answerable to God and we will individually give an account of our lives to God and therefore we should stop condemning, judging, criticizing and blaming others. We are to decide to never put a stumbling block in a brothers way. Rom 14:12-13. We should instead of judging others, judge ourselves. There are so many areas of unchristlikeness in our lives which we will not see unless we decide to mind our own business and not judge others.
Paul says in 1Thes 4:11 that if we make it our ambition to lead a quiet life, minding our own business, and working with our hands.
Jesus in John 21:18 told Peter how he was to die, and Peter looking at John asked Jesus in vs 21, what about him Lord? Jesus told him in other words to mind his own business, he should follow him. It is the same thing that Jesus says to his disciples today, when you see the difficult circumstances that you face yet you are a faithful disciple, and you look around at other disciples and wonder why they are having a more comfortable time. We should be distracted by others, our vision should be in Christ alone and we ought to follow him.
In 1Sam 6:1-19, the Lord had stuck the philistines and they decided to send back the ark of the covenant back to Beth-Shemesh so that the plague would be taken away from them. In vs 19, the Lord killed 70 men because they looked into the ark of the Lord. These people were curious to know what was inside the ark of the Lord, but that was not their work and God therefore killed them. This still happens even today though not physically, we die spiritually when we go beyond the limits God has set for us, minding things that do not concern us.
We need to recognize the limits that God has set for us and not go beyond them. A leader in one department is responsible for people in that department but not in other departments. If such a leader does not concentrate in his department and constantly thinks of other departments which are not his responsibility, his department will fail, but all his concentration is only in the department which has been entrusted to Him, it will succeed. This has applications in many more areas.
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