Posted in Spiritual Applications

This morning in our home Sunday school lesson,

we read about Jesus in the temple (Luke 2).

The end of the chapter really hit home.

Particularly these two verses...

"And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me?

wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" ~ Luke 2:49

"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature,

and in favour with God and man." ~ Luke 2:52

Not much is written about Jesus' youth,

but here there is much said.

Here, at twelve years old, Jesus is about His Father's business...

busy doing God's work.

We also see that He increased (grew) in wisdom and stature

and in favour with God and man.

Spurgeon said, "How sweetly does our Lord here

teach us in our earliest youth to serve our heavenly Father!"

and "We ought exceedingly to admire our Lord

in the lowliness of these preparatory years."

Our children's youth is time to prepare for God's work as adults

but it is also a time to be doing God's work now.

Are we doing all we can to help them, to encourage them?

Are we teaching them, training them, and admonishing them

in spiritual things as faithfully as we ought?

Are we leading them through example?

Are we setting Jesus before them as the perfect example?

May our prayer and challenge be that we are... and that we will.

What a great calling and responsibiliy the Lord has bestowed on us.

"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:

and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;

so are children of the youth." ~ Psalm 127:3,4