Sunday school had led me to believe that Jesus was lost when Mary and Joseph was on their way back to Nazareth from Jerusalem after celebrating Passover. It was a day on the path home they notice he wasn’t in their company travelling along with them; their relatives and friends. Jesus deliberately stayed behind. When they finally found him, he was in the temple and asked why were they so troubled like they should of some how have known he was going to stay behind, so they shouldn’t of been worried Luke 2:42–49.

It wasn’t about Jesus being lost, because he wasn’t lost, scriptures declared he stayed behind, willingly. His poor parents first encounter of what we called today puberty, Jesus maturing into his divinity, calling. Moving away from their nurturing, guidance and protection into the oneness with his Father. Any parents can identify with Mary and Joseph concern and fear over his disappearance. It’s a parent worst nightmare, after all he was their child regardless of his divinity. A natural parental instincts.

This was the first time anything concerning Jesus wasn’t declared to Mary and Joseph by the Guardian angel. Everything from his birth until then was told and explained to them, orchestrated by God himself for all their lives to work together in one accord for His purpose. They knew when to move and when was to stand still to protect Jesus from the powers and principalities, spiritual wickedness in high places in the world, (the devil) and all manner of his evil. Matthew 1:18-25 Joseph was afraid to marry Mary when he found out she was pregnant and in a dream the angel spoke to him and they had to fled to Egypt until King Herod had died, who wanted to kill the baby Jesus, Matthew 2:13. They were always told of impending danger.

Both Jesus parent, Mary and Joseph were being weaned off him in sense. Like a mother weaning her baby off her breast, teaching him or her to rely on solid food and bottle milk instead. I think of it more like letting go of that great desire to be so intimate and close. Being independent and self sufficient. Jesus flipped the script he was weaning them in his actions unknowingly, lol.

I could just imagine the profound impact on both Jesus and his parents in the realization of him being away from them, the emotional implications of their heart and mind. he must of come to the realization of how much it frightened and hurt them to think maybe something bad might of happened to him. When Jesus had replied to them in an nonchalant way it must of been the love that radiated through their question to him, filled his soul and awakened the emotional part of humanity within him, after all his is divinity manifested probably doesn’t understand there logic of them being so concerned. As God had blown the breath of life into humanity, both Mary and Joseph love for Jesus when finally found him and reconnected was like that same breath in the form of love and his human heart came baring it’s self to the forefront for the first time.

Keep in mind our child like innocence is gone once we’ve reached a certain age and for me I understand it to be at puberty, we start to transform to adolescent. Jesus was grown now, even from his parents and we can see it in his response. After all Luke 2:40 Says, the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.