And So Life Goes On
Luke 2:40 The little boy Jesus was developing into a mature young man, full of wisdom. God was blessing him.
Pretty soon the whole Christmas thing, that briefest of blips in the calendar, will fade. We’ll all simply get on with life. But then what?
Ninety-nine percent of life – yours and mine – is about “business as usual”. For most, it’s a constant cadence of a five-day working week, a two-day weekend, the odd burst of hard, prolonged work, and then some rest during those times we call “holidays.”
Okay, that morphs over time … but pretty much everybody’s life is some variation on that basic theme. And it was exactly that too for young Jesus, whose birth we just celebrated.
Sure, He and His parents had to flee to Egypt for a time to avoid His assassination by Herod. But then life slipped into that familiar pattern back home in Nazareth. Now, we hear almost nothing about His growing up years. In fact, this is one of the very few verses that even refers to that time in His life:
Luke 2:40 The little boy Jesus was developing into a mature young man, full of wisdom. God was blessing him.
Yet this seemingly innocuous passage is packed with power. There He was in His father’s carpenter shop, learning a trade … and what? Developing into a mature young man, full of wisdom.
God’s response? God was blessing Him!
We all have apparently boring, insignificant times in our lives, hidden from sight, tucked away as an apprentice in our own version of that carpenter’s shop … but even there, especially there, make no mistake – God has a plan for you, just as He did for His Son.
To develop you, to grow you into maturity, to fill you with wisdom … to bless you. God has a plan!
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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