4.9-Don't worry about what God is doing with others.

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Have you ever envied someone else and their lot in life?  Most of us have, but in reality we don't know the plans God has for us or for them.  In Peter's life there was going to be some hard times.  He wanted to know what about John, would he also have hard times.  Jesus said for him to not be worrying about God's plans for John.  That is good direction for all of us to not be so concerned about God's purpose and plans for others, but to leave that to God and live one day at a time the life that we are to live.

John 21.
¹⁸ Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.” ¹⁹ Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He *said to him, “Follow Me!”
²⁰ Peter, turning around, *saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” ²¹ So Peter seeing him *said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?” ²² Jesus *said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!” ²³ Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”
²⁴ This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
²⁵ And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they *were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself *would not contain the books that *would be written.