Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
When the little Boy of 12 watched His first Passover at Jerusalem, He wondered what it meant. No one could explain it to Him. He had to reason it out through His inspired mind and conclude that it meant that Someone sinless must come and be sacrificed as the Lamb of God.
What’s amazing is that this teenage Boy did not fight the conviction that He was called to die as the “Lamb of God”!
We know He accepted the call, because the first words we have from His lips were what He said to His mother when she later found Him in the Temple, “Wist ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?” (Luke 2:49). That 12-year-old Boy was dedicated! He was the first of many who have out-thought their parents, and yes, their pastors, in understanding the leading of the Holy Spirit.
That “Boy” stayed dedicated to His Father’s “business” until He “set His face” to go to Jerusalem to be crucified (see Luke 9:51).
There are in the world today many teens who likewise hear and respond to the call of the Holy Spirit to dedicate themselves to the Lord Jesus. The nation’s religious leaders in the Temple in Jerusalem had no idea what was happening up in Nazareth in Galilee, while this Teen was growing up and while He was working as a carpenter. The Holy Spirit was teaching Him.
So there are youth today, some as young as 12, who are thinking very seriously, and responding to the Holy Spirit very deeply. They may be 144,000 in number!
Let them ponder that Youth of 12. He does not impose upon them the heavy burdens of Old Covenant living; He invites them to fellowship with Himself in joyous New Covenant freedom. Theirs will be the once-forever joy of proclaiming the message that will lighten the earth with glory (Rev. 18:1-4).
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: November 24, 2007.
Copyright © 2011 by Robert J. Wieland.
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