My resolution is to blog more. I strive to get a blog done every day. But I know that it not going to happen. But I hope for more maybe five a week. I promise to do my best to get good blogs and more of them.
Luke 2:41-52 This story is only told in Luke. Why is that? My guess is because Luke must have spent a lot of time with Mary hearing her remembrances. This must be one of the things she remembered about the boyhood of Jesus.
Jesus' parents sound just like any other parents who lose their boy, are afraid for his safety. They are relieved and angry at the same time. Jesus' answer is equally blunt isn't it? "Don't you know I must be about my Father's business?"
Even at age 12 Jesus knew who he was. He knew his identity. He knew he was special. He had a unique role.
Yet in the next sentence we are told that he went home with parents and was obedient to them. Staying behind seems less that obedient. Yet I think again we have the remembrance of Mary. "Jesus was a good boy. He was obedient to his parents."
Jesus at twelve was already a teacher. Of course he was God so he knew God better than the priests and teachers of the law. Yet it seems he responded in a question/answer dialog sort of fashion. As a child he had to be respectful to his answers. He could not directly teach them. Yet he still felt a need to teach them. These are men who would teach others. He wanted them to teach correctly. So he tried to leave them with provocative ideas. This was doing his Father's work.
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