If we are followers of Jesus Christ and
children of God then our only concern will be our Father's Business,
God our Father and looking after His affairs, His business. I read
from Luke chapter 2 verse 41 in the King James Bible: ”Now his
parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the
passover. 42And when he was twelve years old, they went up to
Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43And when they had
fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind
in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. 44But
they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's
journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and
acquaintance. 45And when they found him not, they turned back
again to Jerusalem, seeking him. 46And it came to pass, that
after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst
of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. 47And
all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and
answers. 48And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his
mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold,
thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. 49And he said unto
them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about
my Father's business? 50And they understood not the saying which
he spake unto them.”
The boy Jesus was at His Father's
business. He was teaching the scribes and the pharisees. If we follow
Jesus we will be at our Father's business, not busy with other
things, the things of this world. We will be speaking the wisdom that
God gives in us because we walk with God and we hear from Him and we
will be teaching others, bringing them to Jesus, building the the
Kingdom of our Lord.
The modern Bible translations have
changed these words to “I have to be about my father's HOUSE,”
(verse 49) because they want to take you to CHURCH, not to Jesus
Christ. When I read this modern translation of the Bible I also see
that they have changed the references to Jesus to small letters, they
are not capital letters any more. When they talk about Him and He it
is small letters. The modern translations of the Bible have been
perverted to make you slaves of the church, not to take you to Jesus
Christ.
We have to be about our Father's
Business and if we follow Jesus He will teach us and He will guide us
into all truth. The Holy Spirit will set our priorities and will
highlight to us the PERVERSIONS in modern Bibles. We have to be led
by the Holy Spirit and be at the Business of our Father. Jesus did
not have a Bible, He was AT HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS being led by the
Holy Spirit. He SPOKE what His father told Him to SAY and He DID what
His Father told Him to DO.
Jesus Christ was at His Father's
business being LED by His Father's Spirit. Are we being led by the
Holy Spirit and are we AT our Father's Business, doing the will of
God? Many people are studying the Bible and they never come to the
truth because they are not at their Father's Business and they are
not led by the Holy Spirit. Do we KNOW our Father's VOICE? Do we
LISTEN to HIM and are we at His Business?
May Jesus bless you.
At one time I discovered that by waiting for the "knowing" that the time was right to do things that they turned out well. The more I did this the more it happened until everything was falling so frequently and conveniently into place that I felt like nothing more than a cog in some workings organised by something out with my ken. I only seemed to need to decide to do something and things would start to fall so conveniently into place. This was scary. It definitely seemed like something else was organising things, there were so many convenient occurrences and coincidences which converged to bring about whatever I had set out to do.
ReplyDeleteI could not tell what this force or power was. I could not tell if it was good, neutral, or potentially bad. So far as I could see, nothing harmful had happened.
However my fear was that it may "beguile" me by organising for me and subtly and imperceptibly luring me down a self-indulgent path. Although nothing bad seemed to have happened I couldn't tell for sure that it was good.
I decided to disrupt the process and stopped being in the mode which led to these chains of apparently organised coincidences.
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I would be interested to know what you think of this.
Pray and ask Jesus, dear friend.
ReplyDeleteMay Jesus bless you.
Thank you.
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