The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

John 21:19c-22, “[Jesus] said to him, “Follow Me!”

20 Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His breast at the supper, and said, ‘Lord, who is the one who betrays You?’

21 Peter therefore seeing him said to Jesus, ‘Lord, and what about this man?’

22 Jesus said to him, ‘If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!’”

Did anyone ever say to you, “Mind your own business”? It seems the norm, somehow, that little kids in school would poke their noses into the work of other students. “You shouldn’t do it that way,” some would say. “Oh, look at how he’s doing his,” others would say, as if what someone else was doing was their business.

Many a time in my childhood, my mother would send me off to carry a message to someone or to do something, and would say, “Now, mind your Ps and Qs.” Funny, I never questioned what that saying meant. It just seemed that I intuitively understood that I was not to get mixed up in anything else; I was just to do exactly what she had told me –nothing else.

Peter would have done well not to have questioned Jesus’ instructions, either. The LORD had simply said to him, “Follow Me” –do what I have told you to do. But, Peter looked around and saw John and asked, “LORD, and what about this man?” It was a question that should never have been asked. Jesus replied, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.”

Let’s face it: we’re too much and too often like Peter. We look around and see others doing things the “wrong way.” Instead of staying on course with our own work, we poke our noses into what they’re doing. We’re not watching our Ps and Qs. What assignment has the LORD given you? I won’t list assignments He has given in Scripture, or what He has put in your mind and heart. That’s not my business. But He has given each of us something specific to do. Are you doing what He has assigned? Don’t worry about what others are doing. Just watch your own Ps and Qs.

Lovingly we pray for you daily,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”