Sometimes one wants to declare with complete certainty that no one likes to obey. The reasons for this are described in the book of Genesis: God created the human person free, and the human person...
Sometimes one wants to declare with complete certainty that no one likes to obey. The reasons for this are described in the book of Genesis: God created the human person free, and the human person used this freedom by carrying out his desire to be in charge, to determine good and evil independently, to be "like gods" (Gen. 3:5), and therefore to obey no one.
How often everything boils inside us when we understand that we need to submit, even though there is sense in it and we must do it because of our position. And what happens inside when we disagree, and we are not even very obligated to submit? How we want to do everything the other way around, and if that does not work, to give ourselves over to irritation and indignation!
But our Teacher gives us an entirely different example. By the way, it is worth paying attention to His age: despite the fact that in Israel a child of twelve ceased to be considered such, before us is still a twelve-year-old boy... And in a situation where He is undoubtedly right, for the Savior simply could not act wrongly, Jesus submits to His parents, and not only on the day when they found Him in the Temple, but also afterward. And He does this because the Lord commanded us to honor father and mother (Deut. 5:16), and the word of God, the will of God, is most important for Him.
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2:40 And the child grew - In bodily strength and stature; and waxed strong in spirit - The powers of his human mind daily improved; filled with wisdom - By the light of the indwelling Spirit, which gradually opened itself in his soul; and the grace of God was upon him - That is, the peculiar favour of God rested upon him, even as man.
2:43 The child Jesus - St. Luke describes in order Jesus the fruit of the womb, Luk 1:42;an infant, Luk 2:12;a little child, Luk 2:40;a child here, and afterward a man.So our Lord passed through and sanctified every stage of human life. Old age only did not become him.
2:44 Supposing him to have been in the company - As the men and women usually travelled in distinct companies.
2:46 After three days - The first day was spent in their journey, the second, in their return to Jerusalem: and the third, in searching for him there: they found him in the temple - In an apartment of it: sitting in the midst of the doctors - Not one word is said of his disputing with them, but only of his asking and answering questions, which was a very usual thing in these assemblies, and indeed the very end of them. And if he was, with others, at the feet of these teachers (where learners generally sat) he might be said to be in the midst of them, as they sat on benches of a semicircular form, raised above their hearers and disciples.
2:49 Why sought ye me? - He does not blame them for losing, but for thinking it needful to seek him: and intimates, that he could not be lost, nor found any where, but doing the will of a higher parent.
2:50 It is observable that Joseph is not mentioned after this time; whence it is probable, he did not live long after.
2:52 Jesus increased in wisdom - As to his human nature, and in favour with God - In proportion to that increase. It plainly follows, that though a man were pure, even as Christ was pure, still he would have room to increase in holiness, and in consequence thereof to increase in the favour, as well as in the love of God.