Good morning. Trust you all had a great Easter weekend, now here’s breakfast.
Luke 2: 45 – 49 (NIV)
When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. 46After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. 48When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you." 49"Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?"
We spoke last week of not “losing Jesus” and considered some of the things in everyday life that can cause us to do so.
I want to now talk about what to do if you do wake up one day and ask yourself “where is He in all of this”? The answer is simple, do what Mary and Joseph would have done and track back your steps to when you knew He was close with you last. That is what we do when we lose anything else isn’t it? When you realize you have mislaid your wallet you think back over the journey of your day till you remember when it was last with you. Do the same here. It works.
2 Keys to re-finding Jesus that we learn from Luke 2
1. The NIV version says Jesus responded “ I had to be in my Father’s House” Your pursuit of Jesus will always take you to the Father’s house, ”church”, not away from it. Don’t buy into lies that say you just need time out from church because that is how you lose Him further. Jesus is still all about His Father’s house and we should be also. When we are, it’s certainly harder to lose sight of Him. Love the Father’s house!
2. In the NKJV it says that Jesus responded, ”Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” If you want to feel close with Jesus again then make sure that your life is about the Father’s business and when you do you will turn around and find him next to you again because that is what He is all about-- His Father’s business!
Be where He is and be involved in what He is involved in. Remember what he said in Matthew 16:18 , that He would “build His Church”. The Church is the only thing He committed to build on the earth and he is still in the centre of its development today. Let’s build it with Him because when you do, it’s amazing how close He can feel. Why? Because, you are about the Father’s business too.
What is “His Father’s Business”?
Among other things it is and will always be:
1. The saving and reconciliation of people back to God (be introducing people to God)
2. Seeing people healed and restored (The Father loves to put broken thing back together)
3. The defence of truth (His Word is truth)
Let’s be busy today with the Father’s business.
Bless you and have a great day.
Andy
A devotional by Pastor Andy Elmes to inspire you with a godly thought to start your day well. God’s word is indeed the breakfast of champions.
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