It’s Not Your Job!

Scripture Anchors

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”
Ephesians 4:2 NIV

“Train up a child in the way he should go… even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6 AMP

“For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”
Galatians 6:3 ESV

“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:6 ESV

“Prepare your minds for action; be sober‑minded; set your hope fully on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
1 Peter 1:13 ESV

“The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.”
James 5:16b ESV

The Vitamin

I know you mean well, but let’s be honest:

• It’s not your job to tell your husband or wife how every little thing should be done.
  Love doesn’t micromanage.
• It’s not your job to keep doing everything for your adult children.
  Teach them before they get there — and then let them walk.
• It’s not your job to tell strangers how to drive from inside your own car.
  They can’t hear you anyway.
  (1 Thessalonians 4:4)
• It’s not your job to give people “a piece of your mind.”
  You need all of it.
• It’s not your job to play psychiatrist and analyze people’s behavior.
  You don’t know their whole story — only God does.
• It’s not your job to be like Job, trying to figure God out.
  Job 38 shows how far above us God truly is.

Instead…

Be like James, nicknamed “camel knees,” or like Elijah —
Get on your job praying for others, and let God do His job.

The Heart Check

• Am I trying to control what God never assigned to me?
• Am I stepping into roles that belong to the Holy Spirit?
• Am I correcting more than I’m praying?
• Am I assuming instead of interceding?
• Am I leading with pride instead of humility?

God calls us to humility, patience, and prayer — not control, critique, or commentary.

The Call to Action

If you see yourself in any of these areas, don’t beat yourself up.
Just shift.

Release what isn’t yours.
Return to what is yours.
Let God handle His part.

Start today. ❤️