Walk properly

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing. – 1 Thessalonians 4.12

So why do we live this quiet life? Why do we keep our noses out of other people’s affairs? Why do we simply do our jobs as we have been instructed?

This verse answers the why - we do all these things so that we may 'walk properly toward those who are on the outside.'

This fast paced world is looking for a break in the action. Nobody seems to know how to slow things down.

But we have the answer to getting out of the rat race. As we walk properly in the world they can see that we have something they don't have. We have peace down inside us that the world can't give us and a peace that it can't take away. We should have a quiet, unriled, calm assurance of the future that draws people to our God.

We should have a different walk. We should have a proper walk. We should have a walk that gives others hope in this every maddening world.  

No one is going to stop the world so we can get off – but we can offer hope on how to survive on it.

Walk properly. Give hope.