NOTES for Th1 4:10-12
It is usually very difficult for someone to reach the equilibrium point in his personal life. Either, it seems that it is necessary to drop everything and to go to preach till the ends of the earth. Either needs to sit down calmly, without distinguishing oneself from road dust. Either spends time in churches and services. Each will find, towards which direction to distort the fragile building of His Christian life. It would seem that our radical rockings from extreme to extreme are confirmed by the fact, that the apostles were fascinated and devoted people. But, nevertheless, Paul asks us to follow completely another way.
His call for each to mind his own business, not vacillate, to be witness for people that are outside and to feed oneself, is similar to a request to be self-confident, if faith is alive in us. The outer extremes appear where there is no spiritual health, where behind sharpness hides the diffidence. By following the way, that God gives us, we learn not to experience fellowship with Him at a superficial level of emotions. The only thing that becomes to us radical and, to an external view an insane choice, is life with Christ.