Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. (NLT)
— 帖撒羅尼迦前書:四11
在成長過程中,可能很多人都會鼓勵我們要好好『立志』來『立定目標、Make it your goal』或『凝聚野心、Make it your ambition』,而內容大都是與『成效、成果、成功、成就』有關,無論是在專業上、事奉上、生命上。但保羅卻勸勉神兒女,我們所要設定的『目標、Goal』與『企圖心、Ambition』,卻是在『作安靜人、Live a quiet life』、『辦自己的事、Mind your own business』、與『親手做工、Working with own hands』,不要好為人師、批評論斷、多管閒事、頤指氣使、替人感動、要人做事,我們是否也願意立定這樣的志向呢⋯?