📖 "And indeed you already are [extending and displaying your love] to all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we beseech and earnestly exhort you, brethren, that you excel [in this matter] more and more, To make it your ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you, So that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be correct and honorable and command the respect of the outside world, being dependent on nobody [self-supporting] and having need of nothing." -I Thessalonians 4:10-12 Amplified Bible Classic Edition
As believers, it is important for us to be a good example to both the believer and the unbeliever. One way we can do that is by being dependent on God. As we operate in sowing and reaping, giving and receiving, we can get to a place where we are self-supporting. God can bring us to a place where we do not have to borrow from any financial institution or any other person. We can get to a place where the blessings of God will come upon us and overtake us as we diligently seek Him. This will not only command the respect of the outside world, but it will also cause an attraction from the world so that they can know how they can get to the same place. This is just another way for us to be the light of the world, the salt of the earth and a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden.
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