Have you seen a toddler try to walk in the shoes of his/her parents? They will put on their mother’s or father’s shoes and try to walk in them around the house. I know my grandson Alijah would put on my daughter’s Hannah shoes. My grandson James would put on my husband’s shoes and my husband had large feet. That is how we are to be with God. We are no longer servants in God’s kingdom, but we are sons. We are to walk in our heavenly Father’s footsteps.
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:25
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, (Daddy) Father." Romans 8:15
Sometimes I don’t want my grandsons or children imitating me. I mean why do they pick up the word “No” and cuss words. I remember when my daughter Hannah was three years old I told her to pick up her toys and she said, “Wait a minute.” I know she got that from me. I went around Windexing the televisions and computers in my house and my grandson got a hold of the Windex and used most of the bottle up for one television following my example. My husband laughed about that because he remembered his son toothpaste the whole couch one time. I remember when a toddler got a hold of a whole container of baby powder I was using on my twin daughter when they were young and powdered up our friend’s living room.
We go through a lot of different behaviors with toddler children, but our children are dearly loved and that is what God says about us!
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children. Ephesians 5:1
Jesus came to fulfill the mission of his heavenly Father. He followed for awhile in Joseph father's footsteps as a carpenter until he was at the age of 30 years old. When he fulfilled his mission, he commissioned his disciples to spread the good news in all the world, and that is the same commission his followers live by now (Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15, Luke 24:47). I met a single woman whose dad has a very lucrative business with the new parking meters, and she has stock in her dad’s business. That is how my heavenly Father’s kingdom is, I have stock in his kingdom and the benefits are out of this world.
There is very little about heaven in the Bible, except in Revelations. There is a reason for that. I’ve heard accounts of those who have died and been sent back and it’s very hard to focus on this life. Heaven is so glorious, and Jesus did not want us to get discontented with our lives to the point that we can’t function on earth. Paul started having a difficult time and he talked about “wanting to depart and be with Christ.” Paul was caught up in a vision of the third heaven.
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know--God knows. 2 Cor. 12:2
I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body. Philip 1:23-24
I met with a long-term male friend of my husband and I for dinner, and he asked me why bother to attend single socials? Why host single events and minister in song-leading at a single’s group? What could I possibly hope to gain for myself with such a diverse group of people never married and divorced singles as a widow? He was right because from the start I was warned from an older widow who leads a spousal loss group that I may not like single groups after being in a one-on-one relationship for a majority of my adult life.
I went to bed and I slept on my friend’s question. I second guess many things to I do in life. God, is what I am doing really what You want me to do in ministering to singles? I did hear the Lord say that he wanted me to volunteer in the past to lead single worship, but is that his current will for my life? Many times in the Bible it says that Jesus’ mother Mary, “pondered or treasured things in her heart. Luke 2:19” Reminds me of what my Cobol professor said that if you have a difficult computer programming coding problem, go sleep on it, and usually he would have the answer the next day when he was shaving. It was like a light bulb or an epiphany would go off in his mind.
I was driving to work and my daughter had borrowed my car and she had the radio station set to a secular station, and they were playing that song, “Taking Care of Business.” And I heard the scripture when I was listening to the song in response to what my friend said of “why” I do the things that I do. Jesus left following his parents and the crowd going home, and what everyone else was doing to take care of his Father’s business.
How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? Luke 2:49
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. ...‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’3 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.” Matthew 20:1-16
Taking Care of Business
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