Article January 18, 1988 Issue

Being about our Father's business

What does it mean to be about our Father's business? And how can we do a better job of it?

Thomas Bushnie

All of us are eager to be successful in business. It may be the business of being a housewife, the business of going to school, or any one of the various activities that make up daily life.

Many are uncertain about how to be successful in meeting the human need. There was, however, no such doubt in Christ Jesus as to which course he should follow. He knew that to be truly successful one had to be about the "Father's business." See Luke 2:49. But what exactly is our Father's business?

Would not our Father's business be the expression and impartation to humanity of the qualities and ideas that characterize His spiritual creation, the creation, including man, that He saw as "very good"—good in health; good in harmony; good in happiness; good in all that is real and true?

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