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Sanctification
Does it irritate you when someone meddles in your business?
Most people prefer to handle their affairs privately without interference from others. In an ideal world each of us would be able to conduct our affairs the way we want without others jumping in uninvited.
You know the feeling because you have had it to happen to you.
Buy a new car and your friends are all up in your business: how much did it cost? Who signed for it? What was your interest rate? How were you able to get it that cheap when no one could?
Get a new friend? Who is he? Where is from? Does he have any money?
Get a new job. Who are you working for? How much do you make? How did you find out about it?
Get a raise. Why did he give you a raise and not me? How much was it?
Have a family dispute? What were you fighting about? Who hit whom? Did you call the police? Are you planning a divorce? Who's going to get the house?
Unless you are a public figure, you have a right to expect to be left alone. Even so, your friends will get in your business, so will your parents and your co-workers and the neighbors across the street. People are so nosy that when they come to your home they read your mail left on the table, try peek at your computer screen and inspect everything they see. They can't stay out of your business.
When you were young, your parents stayed in your business; they were always asking questions. They made you take your medicine, eat your food and they wouldn't let you drive because you were not old enough. They wouldn’t let you date because you were too young.
Now they are old, and you're all up in their business telling them what to eat, when to take their medicine, snatching their car keys because they are too old and not approving their special friends and dates because you think they are too old.
Everybody is up in everybody else's business.
There are times when we just want to be left alone. Those are the times that we want to reach in our pockets and give that nosy person a dime and tell them to buy themselves some business and leave ours alone.
What do you do when God decides to get up in your business? You can't shut Him out or ignore Him. You can't raise your hand and give Him the brick wall. Unlike your neighbors, when God gets in your business He can straighten it out and work it out.
As Christians, we invite the Lord into our lives. He is always welcomed in our business because He will always lead us in the right way and help us do the right thing.