LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON: THE FATHER’S BUSINESS

“Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”

~ Jesus Christ (Luke 2:49)

If someone were to ask you why Jesus came to this planet, what would you say? That He came to save sinners? Do good things? Teach people about Heaven? Or maybe you’d be like, “Wait: who’s Jesus?” If the answer is the latter, check out “The Hidden Meaning” on this blog before going any further. If not, let us proceed… 🙂

Why did Jesus come to this planet?

If the question “Why does it matter?” comes to your mind, well, I’m glad you asked it because the answer to that question is the reason why He came. And, as profound of an impact as that answer has on us, our world, and, yes, even the universe, the answer to that question is astonishingly simple.

He came for the Father.

More specifically, He came to do the Father’s business.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner…because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father Who Sent Me…”

~ Jesus (John 5:19 & 30)

In my previous blog posts, I touched on the Heart of the Father and the Heart of the Son: that burning, pure, powerful love shared between the perfect persons of the Trinity (including the Holy Spirit. Don’t ask me to explain how it all works, just trust me: it’s beautiful!). But no discussion about the love of Jesus Christ and God His Father would be complete without going into the way their love was poured out on earth. From the time Jesus was 12 years old and his mother, Mary, and earthly, adoptive father, Joseph, found him in the Temple in Jerusalem being about His “Father’s Business”, Jesus’ whole life on this planet was about one thing and one thing only: doing what His Father wanted done. Jesus didn’t come for Himself. He didn’t come on His own or with His own agenda. He didn’t even come because he simply loved humanity so God begrudgingly allowed Him to become human and give His life as a ransom for our sin. Jesus came because He loved the Father and because the Father sent Him out of love for us. This was why He was always, always, always consumed with doing “the will” of Him Who sent Him. As my good friend and fellow author Robby Atwood points out:

“God as FATHER dominated Jesus’ revelation of what God is like. Of the (approx.) 25,000 words that Jesus spoke in the Bible, He taught about the ‘Father in heaven’ at least 181 times. This means that 1 out of every 140 words, Jesus was speaking of His Father. Therefore, Jesus’ central purpose was to restore humanity back to the revelation of Abba Father.”

As a little boy loves to mimic his father’s every move (like young Mark McCain with his heroic dad, Lucas, in The Rifleman), Jesus spent every moment of every day looking to His Father, talking with His Father, yielding Himself to His Father’s will—no matter how inconvenient, painful, or trying it might turn out to be—for the sole purpose of showing the world how extremely good His Father was.

How extremely good His Father still is.

For the nature of God the Father as revealed through God the Son by the power of God the Holy Spirit was not a revelation just for the world of first century A.D.. It’s for our world, too. For Our hearts. Our neighbors. Our nation. Our planet.

In whatever moment we are living in.

Right now!

The Father still has business He wants done. But the question is…

Who’s going to do it?

Well, it’s time to saddle up because, next week, things are getting personal! 😊

EMBRACE ADVENTURE,

CHRISTIS JOY

P.S. I highly recommend checking out more of Robby Atwood’s wisdom! You can find him at robbyatwood.com, as well as grab a copy of his latest book “Who Do You Say That I Am?” (which is a fantastic read about finding our identity in Christ) here! 🙂