Father's Business

​“And (Jesus) said to ​(Mary and Joseph), ‘Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?’ But they did not understand the statement which He spoke to them.” (Luke 2:49-50)
Rarely, if ever, does a parent fully understand or readily embrace the calling and destiny that is upon their children’s lives during their young and developing years. Parents can begin to identify the talents and tendencies, but how and when those giftings unfold is a whole other ‘God-matter’ altogether. 
If Mary had understood what this ‘Father’s business’ would lead to just 21 years later in Jesus’ life, realizing that her Son would be brutally beaten and left hanging on a cross to die, she may have protectively done everything in her power to derail the destiny lined out for Jesus.  Who could have blamed her? 
God sovereignly unfolds our lives so that we are given every opportunity to unpack, explore, apply, and ultimately fulfill the plans He has for us.  The price of that fulfillment is always high.  The scars are always deeply embedded and ever present.  The rewards and end-results, however, are ALWAYS magnificent and ABSOLUTELY worth the journey.
​So, may we never shun from fulfilling ‘Father’s business’.  It is always much higher than the ‘carpentry business’ of our earthly fathers---as exemplified in Joseph's life.  Ultimately, it reaps the glorious fruit which we can gladly transport to heaven with us---which consists of redeemed souls, transformed lives, destinies fulfilled, and eternal bliss with Almighty God forevermore.