Ring! Ring!

“Roxy! How are you?” Cameron picks up the phone and nestles between her ear and shoulder to free up the right hand. She continues talking. In her left hand, she stirs a pan of blueberries ready to be sweetened. “Good to hear!”

Little feet make their way into the kitchen. “Mom, can you help me with the puzzle? I don’t know where this piece fits!” Marly cries with eager eyes and peanut-butter-coated fingers.

Cameron turns her head just enough to signal yes without dropping the phone. “Yes, babydoll! Just one second!”

“But mom!” Sticky fingers tug at her shorts and Cameron keeps stirring the berries.

Cameron leads Marly towards the sink with the phone in one hand and Marly’s tiny, five-year old hand in the other. “Wash your hands, honey, we have to leave in 30 minutes and I promise you I’ll help you with the last puzzle piece.” Then, she resumes her conversation on the phone and returns to the kitchen. “I’m bringing dessert,” she tells Roxy.

“Marly!” Her little brother, Jake, shouts as he prepares for his game of indoor nerf-gun wars. “Hands up!”

Click. Click. Foam arrows dart through the hallway in blue and green.

Marly shrieks and jumps away from the sink, to avert the impending foam arrow. “Jake, stop it!”

Jake runs with his toy in hand and chases Marly around the island, knocking into Cameron who grabs sugar for the blueberries.

The spatula flies through the air, and Cameron shifts to catch it with her left hand, as usual. “That’s not the first time that’s happened,” she exclaims and continues to stir.

Roxy echoes in the phone, “What is it?”

“The kids are just playing!” She exclaims with a smile and looks over at her two angels in their sandbox of indoor summer fun. “So, we’ll be over to the game in just a bit. I just need to finish this blueberry topping,” Cameron says peacefully over the phone. She hangs up.

“Marly has peanut butter all over her shirt!” Jake exclaims.

“I wonder how that happened!” Cameron winks at Jake and picks him and Marly up to carry them to the sink.

Four-year old Jake squirms. “Mom, I’m not a baby. I can walk!”

“Then show me how you wash your hands like a big boy and play nice with your sister,” she carols unscathed.

Woof! Woof!

Cameron turns, and Tango, their Great Dane, barrels through the hallway. “Tango, sit!” Cameron signals and he obliges.

Beep! Beep!

“The berries are ready,” Cameron says to herself and returns to the kitchen to finish her recipe. “Kids, if you clean up your toys, I’ll give you a side of sweet blueberries before anyone else gets to try it!”

“Me first!” Jake runs to Cameron and stops at her waist.

“No, me first!” Marly cries and follows.

Cameron kneels down and smiles into their innocent, childlike pupils. “What did I say about being first?”

“The first will be last, and the last will be first.” Jake recalls.

“That’s right.” Cameron affirms with a smile. She wait for their response.

“Marly can go ahead of me,” Jake says.

Cameron stands, pleased with his answer. She dips a spoon-full of blueberries and turns around, with her left hand under the dripping juice.

“Since Jake gave up his turn, he gets the first spoonful,” Cameron says gladly.

Jake opens his mouth, tastes the berries, and smiles with big brown eyes. “You make the best, mom!”

“For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.” Psalm 86:10

God delights in watching over you. Taking care of you. Providing for you. Doing it all for you.

God multitasks. He does a trillion things at once, without complaining, because He can handle it all at once with complete delight. Let His all-powerful essence handle the chaos of the world around you.

There is no chaos too hectic for God to stop reigning. He leads through it all. He remains present through it all. He is available to you through it all. He manages the universe all by Himself.

Jesus multi-tasked when He ministered to the people. The disciples watched Him heal, teach, preach, work miracles, and mingle with the people in various ways. He did not just do one thing. He did many things.

The Messiah was sent to redeem Israel as the God who does all things.

Jesus’ name is described in a multi-faceted way in Isaiah 9:6:

“For to us a child is born,
    to us a son is given;
and the government shall be upon his shoulder,
    and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.“

Isaiah says that the Messiah will multitask as Counselor, God, Father, and Prince. And this is just one description of His eternally complex identity.

“Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the Heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.” Isaiah 44:24

God creates, fixes, sustains, fulfills, completes, uplifts, upgrades, restores, rejuvenates the universe all in His one being. No one else is needed except for Him. He does it all. Heaven exists all because of Him alone. We exist because of God alone.

In John 8, Jesus multitasks when two separate people approach him for healing like a ripple effect. He is in a crowded place and a man named Jairus comes up to him first to ask him to heal his daughter. Jesus agrees, and begins in that direction, but on the way, another person comes up to Jesus for healing. And this time, the person approaches Jesus from the back.

“Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed Him, for they were all waiting for Him. ⁴¹ And there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue. And falling at Jesus’ feet, he implored Him to come to his house, ⁴² for He had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As Jesus went, the people pressed around Him. ⁴³ And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. ⁴⁴ She came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased.” Luke 8:40-44

Jesus gets approached from the front and the back.

Jesus gets approached by men and by women.

Jesus takes care of every task laid on Him.

So Jesus heals the lady who touches him second because she is right there in the moment. Then, he proceeds with Jairus to his home to heal his daughter. Both daughters get healed. Jesus multitasks.

“But taking her by the hand he called, saying, “Child, arise.” And her spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given her to eat. And her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened.” Luke 8:54-56

Jesus multitasks in order to heal as many people as possible. He does not do it for glory, although He is glorified for all He does. He does it because people need Him. He does it because He does not want to lose anyone.

Jesus multitasks to heal as many people as He can, but He is also willing to go after the one and leave the many for that “one.”

This is another aspect of His multitasking innovation.

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety–nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?” Luke 15:4

God can run the whole sheep-pen and still leave it to go after the one sheep who is lost. This is what He did when He left Heaven. He can reign in Heaven and also come to earth to die for our sins. Jesus care for all and He cares for the “one.” Jesus multitasks.

God multitasks to bring beauty to the whole by caring for each of His creations one by one.

“For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him.” 2 Chronicles 16:9

God loves you as the only one He sees.

God loves His creation day by day.

God created His creation one day at a time in all its multi-faceted beauty.

“And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.” Genesis 1:31

God makes everything Himself.

With everything God makes, there is the need for ensuring it keeps running. God does that part too. The part of sustaining the livelihood of what He made. Thus, every single molecule of the universe is all taken care of by God. He is the ultimate multi-tasker.

You can come to God with anything on your heart. He can handle all of the tasks required for overseeing everyone’s life on earth. He can handle all of the prayer requests of everyone’s life on earth. He can handle all of the maintenance requests for life on earth. He can handle the building projects for glorious New Heaven that is coming to be. God is the ultimate multi-tasker.

God fights for you to step into the plans He has for you.

“For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11

Wait for God to complete all His tasks. Then you will see the multi-faceted finale of His plan all along.

“The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” Exodus 14:14

God knows what He is doing.

all-powerful God

all-powerful King

awe-inspiring dreams

awaken from the Tree

of life You breathe into being

all life is in Your hands

every moment is in Your hands