Perpetual Awareness

From: Good Thing Daily Devotionals

Luke 2:49 "I must be about my Father’s business."

What is the driving motivation of your life? Whose "business" are you usually and primarily concerned with? Are you mostly working toward your own ends and purposes, toward the pleasure and admiration of your colleagues, toward the fulfillment of your friends’ expectations? Jesus determined that His Father’s business was His one driving, overruling interest.

You may excuse yourself as being too young or too new to the faith to make such an all-encompassing, single-minded resolution. It is never too soon (or too late) to give your life to the service of the Lord, to dedicate your time and energy and labors to His glory and pleasure.

Jesus lived in perpetual awareness that His Father had a purpose for His being here, and that He must therefore be constantly about His Father’s business. We must always be about our Father’s business! Do not let any personal ambition or conflicting counsel get in the way of that great purpose.