01 Apr Only Doing What God Does
Little kids love to copy their fathers. If Dad is changing a tyre, a little boy has to be out there doing it too, even though they may not actually help in any way. There is something that makes them want to copy.
Jesus, even as a fully grown adult, stated ‘I only do what I see my father doing.’ John 5:19
There are a lot of layers to what this can mean for us.
Obviously there is the thought that we should not rush off ourselves. There is also the idea that we want to be near to God. We should emulate what Jesus did, in other words, we also only do what we see Jesus doing.
It can be stilted and forced, kind of like a legalistic thing where we must ritually copy God. Or it can be alive, and take on meaning because it is based in relationship. Getting to know God and wanting to be like him can be meaningful beyond the normal mundane lives we live.
Today we often see ministers (and believers) who have their own life planned, and God is an addendum. He is the plus, the bit you add on. But that was not how Jesus lived his own life.
We sometimes see people who claim to be apostles, but sadly too often, they don’t understand that what motivates them is trying to be big and important. The reality is that the apostle, should be the most like Jesus, the one most inclined to do nothing unless God was doing it. Jesus didn’t seek glory for himself, and was led by God to death, to the giving up of everything. There was an eventual glory, but it came from a full surrender.
To be the greatest in the kingdom is to become small.
It begins with copying Jesus, and only doing what your Father in Heaven is doing.
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