What does it mean to "occupy until I come" in our daily lives?

In his devotional, Paul Carrington explains that when the Lord instructs us to occupy until His return, it means to persist in doing His will consistently. This command is not limited by time, whether it be 50 years or 5,000 years, but rather a call to focus on advancing His kingdom. It involves being engaged in the Master's work and living out the Great Commission. This includes ordering our families according to His Word and taking dominion for the Lord in every area of life, as seen throughout church history where conversions led to transformed families and societies.

Occupying until He comes means continuously taking ground and adhering to God's commandments regardless of circumstances. Whether in times of revival or resistance, our task is to persistently follow His instructions. It's a call to faithfully teach our children and even govern our nation in alignment with His Word. The hope lies in the assurance that we are not alone; God is with us, providing strength and guidance as we fulfill His mission. This enduring commitment to His work is grounded in the promise of His presence and empowerment.

Matthew 28:20 (NKJV): "...and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."

When the Lord tells us, occupy till I come, what I take that to mean is he says, keep doing the same things I've been doing until I come in the sense that it may be in 50 years according to how the disciples might have interpreted that, or it could be in 5, 000 years. But you're not to be too preoccupied with anything else other than doing my will, occupying till I come, expanding the extent, the reach, advancing my kingdom, I think is what he's talking about there. And so that when he does come, he finds us about his business doing the master's work. And so this involves the great commission. It involves the way that we order our families.

It involves taking dominion for the Lord in every area of life, right? And we see that again through church history, that men who get converted, their families change. The question then arises, what shall I do? How should I now live? How should we even govern our nation?

Or how should we teach our children? All these things come out of the fact of what God has commanded us to do in his word. And so all the Word of God is really for our instruction, but to occupy till I come, it means keep taking ground, keep doing the things I told you to do don't stop You know the weather may be fair it may be foul It may be a time of great rejoicing and revival and maybe a time when like in the times of Jeremiah No one is willing to listen but our task is to continue to do the thing that he's commanded us to do and to not fail. And he's gonna be with us. That's the great hope that we have.

Lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age. And so we're not doing this in our own strength, but we're doing it in the strength that he supplies.