1 Thessalonians 4

 "A QUIET LIFE"

Plea for Purity

 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;   for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;  that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,   not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;   that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.   For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.   Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

 

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;   and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;   that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,   that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

1 Timothy 2

 

Pray for All Men

 

 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,   for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.   For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,   who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.   For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,   who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,   for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

BeyondTheVeilDaily; There is a delicate balance between "the quiet life, and the call to the"utter most parts of the earth". They are intricately knit together by the hand of God, an umbilical bond. One can not live without the other. The man who learns to lives in this truth, has found true balance, and entered into the promise rest of Hebrews!

Hebrews 4:1

[ The Promise of Rest ] Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

Hebrews 4:9
 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.