a Love Story – Not Just any Boy – February 16

a LOVE STORY
February 16, 2021

Not Just any Boy

Luke 2:49-52, ‘Jesus said to them, “Why would you need to search for me? Didn’t you know that it was necessary for me to be here in my Father’s house, consumed with Him?” But Mary and Joseph didn’t fully understand what Jesus meant. Jesus went with them back home to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother treasured Jesus’ words deeply in her heart. As Jesus grew, so did His wisdom and maturity. The favor of men increased upon His life, for He was loved greatly by God (TPT).’

The Father found great pleasure in His Son Jesus. Wherever the boy went, He went too. Wherever the boy went, He was about His Father’s business. It was fascinating, really. What the Creator’s inclination was when He imagined the world into place and when He breathed life into the man being was finally now after generations had come and gone being fulfilled. He accompanied His Son no matter where the boy journeyed, and Jesus was dutifully busy, expressing all things the Father had, since the beginning of time, wanted conveyed.

So it wasn’t surprising to the Father to find Jesus in the temple, right in the center of the Jewish leaders and teachers, listening, learning, asking questions, even teaching. The parents were distressed, of course, and anxiety ridden, horrified they had lost their son—and not just for a moment, but in actuality, for days. But God the Father knew right where He was, and what He was doing, and His pleasure was magnified in the honorable welcome His boy had received by the scholars of the day. The Heavenly Father realized then there would be times when the parental sharing of responsibilities with the boy’s earthly father would become complicated. No one had seen a heart like His, no ear had heard. But they were just beginning to.

He tried to imagine it from their point of reference but that was difficult. Something felt oxymoronic. Children were to be seen, but out of respect and obedience, they were to honor their parents and stay silent and be found, not missing. In other words, He realized, they were to defer to their parents at all times. After all, it was His commandment. Yet that is what Jesus the Son was about, being obedient to His Father. It would be a lifetime, His Son’s lifetime, before the parents could even possibly understand. Jesus was sent for a mission, a purpose. He stepped into humanity, pulled on skin, while veins filled with a Savior’s blood formed maps of rescue missions across His body. He wrapped all the intricate pieces of mankind around His royalty, and laying down His crown, He traded glory for unloveliness, writing down His Father’s story of salvation and signing it with His blood. This story, this love, was inconceivable, indescribable, unfathomable, extraordinary. And it was just getting started, the Author sighed.

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