Dear Friends of �Dial Daily Bread�:
Is it ever right for a child of 12 to make a serious life decision on his/her own, without asking and following the parents� permission?
Jesus did at the age of 12 without asking Mary�s permission or Joseph�s. He has watched His first Passover in Jerusalem. Thoughts have gone through His mind that His earthly parents have never dreamed of. For the first time in history one Person has begun to comprehend clearly what the Passover lamb symbolizes. It means that Somebody must go to a cross. Somebody must die a different kind of death than anybody has ever died or will die again. Jesus is the Son of God--but He is just now beginning
to realize what that means. But He is also the Son of man, which means He is still a human Boy of 12. He is grasping the idea of who His true divine Father is.
When Mary reproaches Him for staying behind at the Temple, He doesn�t collapse in tears of childish remorse; He stands His ground. There�s a gentle but rock solid hint of confrontation here. �He said to them, �Why is it that you sought Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father�s business?�� We read that He �went down with them...... to Nazareth, and was subject to them,� eighteen years of hiatus (Luke 2:49, 51; 3:23). But a divine/human Person has embarked upon a career that leads Him
to die �the second death� for a world lost in sin (cf. Rev. 2:11). At the age of 12 He must not permit His earthly parents to deter Him from His holy mission.
There are children today at the age of 12 who are likewise led by the Holy Spirit to be baptized into Christ because they know He is calling them.
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