~My Father's House~

Luke 2:41-52
Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Let’s look at this verse in the perspective of Mary and Joseph. Imagine yourself as one of them you’re looking every where for your little boy. You are worried of where he might be. You search for him for 3 days. Then finally you find him. You are so relived! The first thing your boy says to you when you find him is
“Why were you looking for me?”
Let’s stop for a second.

You have been traveling for 3 days, searching high and low for your little boy. You were worried sick about him. That is not exactly something you would expect out of anyone that you haven’t seen in 3 days. You are probably a little taken back by that question. Then your little boy continues to say to you “do you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
Alright so by now you are probably really thrown off by everything your boy has just said to you.

Jesus was a boy of only 12 years. When he asked his parents “Do you not know that I must be in my Father’s house”? Jesus was not referring to Joseph. He was talking about his own personal relationship with God. He realized he had something special with God. So when he was talking about his father’s house he was talking about God not Joseph. Joseph is only Jesus’ ‘legal’ father. Also it was strict that no Jew would call God ‘Father’. So when Jesus said to His parents ‘I must be in my Father’s house’ it showed His love for His heavenly Father. He had desire to walk out all that God was calling him to do through out his entire life. Jesus walked in complete obedience and humility.

What I really enjoy about this is that Jesus was only 12 and He had wisdom that no one could understand. He had a desire to be in God’s presence and to have a personal relationship with Him. Jesus leads by example. He wants us to enter into God’s presence, to seek after Him, to love him and obey Him.

Just think we are the temple of the God, the temple of the Holy Spirit. We have the privilege of God reigning within our hearts.

1 Corinthians 6: 19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

How does it make you feel knowing that God is living within you?

He dwells within us, already knowing everything about us. The Spirit that lives in us is the same Spirit that formed the heavens and the earth.

So what are we going to do about this?

Are we going just stay complacent and not pursue a deeper relationship with the King who finds His home in our hearts?

Or are we going to pursue God who chases us everyday?

Seek after Him as He seeks after us. Do you thirst and hunger for more of a deeper and intimate relationship with Him?

Do we, like Jesus want to be in our Father’s house?