One of my favorite epiphanies about Jesus came when I heard (or read) that Jesus’ first recorded words came when His parents found Him in the temple after He went missing. He spoke of how He must be about His Father’s business. His last words before He died were, “It is finished.” Everything in between was His Father’s business — that means you and that means me and that means those for whom He came to seek and to save.

That’s our business. To seek out the lost and help them find their way to Jesus. Like Jacob Marley said to Scrooge that Christmas Eve, “Mankind was my business,” and not the obsessive hoarding of wealth and titles.

Tonight, I am thankful that I was my Father’s business. So were you. That mission that started in Bethlehem and ended in Jerusalem was to find and save us. Jesus wasn’t the one who was lost. Not really. We were.