ABOUT MY FATHER'S BUSINESS

 ABOUT MY FATHER’S BUSINESS

“And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son why hast thou thus dealt with us? And, behold, they father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Luke 2:48-49. Mary and Joseph have found Jesus in the temple hearing and asking questions of the temple teachers. They are amazed when they find him as so should you and I be also. Christ should amaze us with his teaching and his presence in our lives. They express the sorrow that they have experienced in losing him and searching for him. Jesus expresses to them that he must be about his Father’s business. Jesus has an understanding for the reason that he has come to earth. Some years, eighteen, would pass before Jesus embarked upon the ministry of teaching and healing. There was an occasion when a multitude, like his parents, would seek for him and find him. During the conversation that took place between Jesus and this multitude, Jesus said to them, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.” John 6:37-38. Jesus would do all that God had designed for him to do. The mission which God had given to the Son was “to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10. All that Jesus taught and all that he did was to save the lost. “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. The abundant life is salvation through Christ. In Christ, we have life now and in eternity. The business of the Father was to fulfill the law given to Moses and make effective a new law in Christ. “Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.” Hebrews 10:9-10. As Jesus Christ was preparing to die on the cross, he prayed to his Father in heaven. “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” John 17:4. Mary witnessed his death on the cross. I wonder if she remembered that saying that he spoke to her in the temple all those years ago.