“So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You done this to us? Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously.” And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” Luke 2:48-49
This word of the Lord came this morning as thus! Jesus’ parents had lost him and had been looking for Him for three days!
When he was found, the question he asked them provoked waking in me!
‘Did you not know that …?’
That phrase showed that Jesus expected His earthly parents to know something about Him to a certain degree.
Obviously I am not proposing that parents must know that their children are wired to bad character and motives, that when they screw up their parents should have seen it coming … but let me take the direction of passions.
A parent should not be shocked if their child is talented in some specific way. Forcing them to do something they are not well versed with may end up killing their enthusiasm and causing rifts in their inner selves.
I just graduated last week, and I am grateful to God, that for all academic advances I’ve had since lower high school, my mother was always on my side. She never was antagonistic.
On the other hand, we have lads and lasses who are forced to do courses they have zero interest in. That is dangerous to some point I believe. I’ve seen children who graduate in medicine; take the degree to their parents and then end up doing business! The parents then enrage, for having wasted their fees on the child, but perhaps they didn’t examine their child’s interests.
Jesus’ question to his parents sounded like they should have known. We must know, some things about our children; especially the areas God created them to be, and as parents we must be their rod and staff on their journeys to becoming. Catching them in case they get off-guard and off-course.
How?
It begins with us! Proverbs says teach a child in the way they should go so that when they grow, they do not depart from the way. If we echo to them what they should be, while young, it might or should stick! But can you echo what you don’t know!
How? — Again the question resurfaces.
In the scriptures prior, a man called Simeon prophesied to Jesus but the Bible says, And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. (Luke 2:26)
It was revealed …
… By the Holy Spirit
The same way it was revealed to Simeon should be the same way your child’s entirety is revealed to you! That helper — that revealer is still relevant today! To reveal to you what your child is to be according to divine order, and then you will pray in alignment — raising the child as well in the same.
So that the question ‘do you not know’ ceases to be a question when it comes to your children and their destinies!
That is the ministry we have with our children… Do not think you are no pastor! You are a shepherd to that sheep! You just don’t have physical pews and a pulpit! But you have home furniture and a dining!
Your cathedral is sized down to a three bedroomed house or four! Replacing those mosaic stained window glasses with ordinary ones! And the altar isn’t a necessarily separated niche at the end of the main aisle; but it must be availed in your house too, lest you risk an unprecedented war, and a gorge between you and your child.
And,
… and to the child! I don’t propose you sit back and throw your legs on the table. I was at the altar too! To know what I’m supposed to be. Sometimes parents are busy caring for more than one child that they can’t get time to get your entire details. Like Samuel, you must hear God and say, ‘master speak your servant heareth.’
Remember you as well know not what you must be. So you must be taught by your parent to go into the Holy of Holies, so that when he or she is not in he vicinity, you can download signals straight from the headquarters for your next step in life. And the joy will be when what you heard from God, reconciles with what your parents heard — for the crucial matters of your life.
Why this truth is efficacious is because children are a gift from God! Every child is! So, it makes sense inquiring of the gifter, what His purpose for the gift was. More like the pot! Only the potter can fathom the shape, depth, width, and the why of it. If someone has never seen a pot, they are in danger of thinking it is a potty! And that is where the misconception and abuse of purpose begins!
The end…
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