In John 5:19-20 (NET) we read these words from Jesus. “…I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does.”
So Jesus, the Son, does only what he sees the Father doing. That brings up the question, what is the Father doing?
To answer that I think we first have to ask, in all that is going on in all creation, what does the Father most want? What would he be most satisfied with?
I suggest to you that he wants the satisfaction of having every man, woman, and child, know — to the full extent of their capacities — just how precious they are to him.
And there is no secondary motive in it whatsoever for God is perfectly pure. Whatever he does he does for one reason only.
When someone says that God does everything “for his glory” or to be “glorified” through it. I agree. All I’m doing is explaining what I think that means in which case my assertion would read like this:
God is most glorified when he is most satisfied. And he is most satisfied when people know — as best they are capable of knowing — how precious they are to him.
So, for example, when we read the Lord referring to Israel as “everyone who belongs to me, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed—yes, whom I made.” (Isaiah 43:7)
This is what I hear him saying: I created Israel to bring me the satisfaction of communicating to the whole world — every man, woman, and child — how infinitely precious each person is to me.
If I have it right then here’s our answer as to what the Father is doing when Jesus says, “the Father is always at his work, and I too am working.”
And this is precisely what we too must be able to say of Jesus: Jesus is always at his work and we also are working.
And that is true of us when everything we do — directly or indirectly — has this singular purpose behind it:
to work with Jesus
in creating optimum conditions
for everyone in our lives
to experience more
of their preciousness to God
through us.

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