Your Father’s Business Is Your Business
Contemplating the year ahead, I can’t help but reflect back on the dying year.
For many, myself included, 2019 came with it’s fair share of ups and downs.
The downs, although accompanied by anxiety and self-doubt, pushed me to seek God through prayer and rely more on Him to be my source of solution. For that, I am so grateful! Through test and trial I am thankful for the lessons and revelations that came with the downs. Indeed, the God within is greater than any external adversities (1 John 4:4 NIV).
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
The ups, proved that happiness is an inside job orchestrated by God himself. More than ever before, I realized the importance of gratitude.Through prayer and thanksgiving I was able to gain understanding and learned that there is a lesson in all situations.
So in 2019, I learned that I am the business of the creator and He is my business. I am His business for He “made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13). He is my business because “I can never get away from His presence!” (Psalm 139:7).
This year, I anticipate God carrying out His business in my life and me minding God’s business. He is in the business of giving me a future filled with hope (Jeremiah 29:11).
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
He is in the business of giving me the desires of my heart and making all my plans succeed (Psalm 20:4). He is in the business to calm all storms in my life to a whisper (Psalm 108:29) and to turn all dry and dead situations into pools and springs of life (Psalm 108:35).
My business is to seek His kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33) and to love Him with my whole heart, soul and mind and love my neighbor as I love myself (Luke 10:27).
In 2020, business is booming and each day in the presence of God feels like living in the land overflowing with honey and milk (Exodus 3:17)!
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. – Psalm 16:11 ESV
