The Quiet Life
Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.—1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NLT)
Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”—Luke 23:34 NIV
Even as Jesus faced unbearable suffering, He focused His prayers on the people hurting Him. Instead of calling out for wrath and destruction, Jesus called for mercy. His compassionate prayer amidst torture is proof of God’s absolute love for each one of us.
Lord Jesus, thank You for all that you endured on the cross for me. Every moment of every day, I grow a deeper understanding of the depth of Your love.
Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.—1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NLT)
When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.—Job 2:11 (NIV)
Ears that hear and eyes that see—the Lord has made them both.—Proverbs 20:12 (NIV)