{"id":736,"date":"2017-04-13T08:49:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:02:20","slug":"wheres-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/13\/wheres-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWhere\u2019s Jesus?\u201d Mary asked.<\/h6>\n
\u201cWhat do you mean, where\u2019s Jesus? I thought he was with you.\u201d Joseph said.<\/h6>\n
\u201cJoseph, go and see if he\u2019s with his brother\u2019s.\u201d Mary said somewhat concerned.<\/h6>\n
The brothers were setting up their tents when Joseph approached them. \u201cHave you seen Jesus?\u201d \u201cNo, we haven\u2019t seen him Joe, when\u2019s the last time you saw him?\u201d<\/h6>\n
Joseph, scratching his head, thought for a moment, \u201cI\u2019m not sure. It was, it was yesterday or was it the day before. I thought he was here.\u201d<\/h6>\n
\u201cNo we haven\u2019t seen him Joe.\u201d Expressions of questions passed between them.<\/h6>\n
\u201cI have to go and tell Mary.\u201d Joseph ran back to his camp. \u201cMary, don\u2019t panic, Jesus is not\u00a0with the caravan. I\u2019ve looked everywhere and no one has seen him.\u201d<\/h6>\n
Mary dropped the bowl she was holding and grabbed Joseph by the arm and said, \u201cJoseph we have to go back to Jerusalem. We have to find Jesus.\u201d<\/h6>\n
There, perfectly content, sitting in the middle of his contemporaries, not standing, he’s accepted as one of them. Jesus is teaching the teachers. Twelve years old, Jesus is in his father\u2019s house. Completely comfortable, totally natural, doing what he\u2019s compelled to do. He’s in Jerusalem city of God.\u00a0Most boys his age would be playing with other young people. Jesus is not most boys. He is conversing with the holy men of God, telling them things they’d never\u00a0even thought of before.<\/h6>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve not heard such words since, well never. What authority! What wisdom, comes from one so young.\u201d The teachers and professors\u00a0reply to one another.<\/h6>\n
Then in the background they hear rumblings, a woman\u2019s voice. \u201cWhere\u2019s Jesus? Where\u2019s my son?\u201d<\/h6>\n
Mary makes her way to Jesus. Joseph is right behind her.<\/h6>\n
Mary sees Jesus in the temple and pulls him aside to talk to him.<\/h6>\n
\u201cSon why have you done this to us, why did you not tell us you were staying behind? We\u2019ve been searching for you\u00a0for three\u00a0days.\u201d Mary said searching Jesus\u2019 face for answers. Joseph looked on at him with hurt but relief that he was safe.<\/h6>\n
\u201cWhy did you look for me, didn\u2019t you know I\u2019d be in my father\u2019s house?\u201d Jesus said like nothing was amiss.<\/h6>\n
Joseph and Mary just stared at him; they didn\u2019t know what he was talking about.<\/h6>\n
They realized he was the Messiah and that he should have\u00a0been taken to the palace not the temple. They didn’t understand the prophetic call that was on his life. That he was to teach and bring good news to all who would learn and listen to him.<\/h6>\n
But in honor and obedience to his parents, Jesus followed the fifth commandment, honor your father and your mother,\u00a0he went back to Nazareth with them. Setting an example to young people that they should adhere to their parents and that they should grow in wisdom and become children of obedience. He was their son, but he was also God but it wasn\u2019t his time yet.<\/h6>\n
Are you searching for Jesus? Do you know where he is? Will you search for him?<\/h6>\n
He\u2019s in the temple with His Father. He\u2019s sitting and praying and doing all that the Father asks.<\/h6>\n
You can find him if you seek for him, call out, \u201cJesus where are you?\u201d<\/h6>\n
\u201cI\u2019m here, don\u2019t you know I\u2019m doing what my father has asked me to do. I\u2019m waiting for you to come and find me. Then I will go with you to the home of your heart, and there we will abide forever.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
–Marla Shaw O’Neill April 13, 2017<\/h6>\n
They Found Him in the Temple<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Luke 2:41-52<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Every year Jesus\u2019 parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Feast of Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up as they always did for the Feast. When it was over and they left for home, the child Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents didn\u2019t know it. Thinking he was somewhere in the company of pilgrims, they journeyed for a whole day and then began looking for him among relatives and neighbors. When they didn\u2019t find him, they went back to Jerusalem looking for him.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
The next day they found him in the Temple seated among the teachers, listening to them and asking questions. The teachers were all quite taken with him, impressed with the sharpness of his answers. But his parents were not impressed; they were upset and hurt.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
His mother said, \u201cYoung man, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been half out of our minds looking for you.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
He said, \u201cWhy were you looking for me? Didn\u2019t you know that I had to be here, dealing with the things of my Father?\u201d But they had no idea what he was talking about.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
So he went back to Nazareth with them, and lived obediently with them. His mother held these things dearly, deep within herself. And Jesus matured, growing up in both body and spirit, blessed by both God and people.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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\u201cWhere\u2019s Jesus?\u201d Mary asked. \u201cWhat do you mean, where\u2019s Jesus? I thought he was with you.\u201d Joseph said. \u201cJoseph, go and see if he\u2019s with his brother\u2019s.\u201d Mary said somewhat concerned. The brothers were setting up their tents when Joseph approached them. \u201cHave you seen Jesus?\u201d \u201cNo, we haven\u2019t seen him Joe, when\u2019s the last…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-bS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}