JESUS GREW - Luke 2:51-52

JESUS GREW

Luke 2:51-52

We visualize Jesus as a baby wrapped up in strips of cloth lying in a feeding trough. We sadly see in our mind’s eye, our Lord Jesus dying on the cross. But how often do we contemplate His boyhood? I have always found it amazing that the God who created the universe chose to become an embryo inside a woman He had knit together. I find it equally intriguing to think of our Lord and Savior subjecting Himself to be obedient to mere human beings. Even before that, imagine the all-powerful God humbling Himself to the point of needing His mother to feed and change Him! Picture toddler Jesus being told to stay away from the fire. Did He already know He would be burned if He touched it? Imagine Jesus needing to learn the carpentry trade from Joseph. “Yo, Dad, I invented wood!” No, I’m sure He resisted the urge to be insolent. How aware was He that He was God’s Son? At what age did Mary and Joseph tell Him about the circumstances of His birth? The Bible does not tell us much about Jesus’s boyhood. Luke gives us this glimpse of Him being obedient and growing wiser and taller. What I do know is this—Jesus, our High Priest, experienced everything as a human. We cannot say He can’t understand what we are going through. I praise the Lord that He chose to need to grow up both physically and mentally because it gives me confidence that I can share my heart with Him, and He will understand. Psalm 103:14 “For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.” Amazing! Jesus submitted Himself to the authority of Mary and Joseph—people created from dust! The next time I balk at humbling myself, I need to remember this!