Mind Your Own Business
“Mind your own business.” We live pretty independent, isolated lives, and we are offended if someone gets a little nosy.
Philippians 2:4 (AMP) Let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not [merely] his own interests, but also each for the interests of others.
Paul is encouraging the Phillippian church to look out for, be concerned about and take care of each other.
How do we do that? Paul started in Romans with being devoted to and giving honor and preference to one another. Be of the same mind with one another. Love one another. Do not judge one another on differing views of conscience and gray areas. Build up one another. Encourage one another. I think we can top that off with praying for one another!
At no other time in history have people had the ability to be connected with each other 24-7 like we are today. Yet, there has never been a lonelier group of people. Connected, but at the most superficial level possible.
I think God wants you to be a little nosy. Not so you can gossip, but so you can pray. We often have no idea the burdens those around us are carrying. We are overwhelmed by our own burdens; therefore, we don’t look around and see the needs and hurts around us.
I want to encourage you to pray a prayer and ask Jesus to open your eyes to the needs around you. And then, begin to fill your prayer list with an ever widening circle that’s concerned with others.
James 5:16 (NASB95) ……and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.