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His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.” (Luke 2:48-50)
In reading that, as the son of a mother, I hear a bit of a guilt trip. And I know that for myself, sometimes I DO need to feel guilty in order to do something. However, I’ve been told by my pastor and others that guilt is not from God. And while Mary was blessed (and Holy?), she wasn’t without sin.
BTW - my pastors and others have said that this was not a sign of Jesus not honoring his parents or being indolent. They would have been traveling with a large group of people from their village and lots of aunts and uncles and cousins and neighbors to watch over everybody, so Mary and Joseph figured He was with others.
I like the story too as it shows both of Jesus’s natures, both man and God. As a boy he was still learning (”Now make sure you call me if you go somewhere else other than Bobby’s house”), but His God nature comes out in the statement of “..in my Father’s house.”
I was about 16 or 17 when I finally got the anxiety that my Mother felt for me. I had been gone by myself for the weekend hunting. Stopped by a friends on the way home and didn’t make it back until 1 am, and my mom knew that I should have been back by 10pm or so. Of course way before cell phones.
I’ll never forget driving up to the house. The light was on and I thought “Oh man - it’s late, I’m in trouble.”
Then I saw that my mom had moved the living room chair around so she could look out the window. As I got closer she recognized the car and her head just collapsed in her lap. She of course had been thinking the worst with me out hunting by myself and all.
I ALWAYS found a way to call after that.
Hmm - and that was not a guilt trip by my mom, just her honest and fearful reaction. So there may not have been any guilt trip by Mary. Again - I think it boils down to the obvious fact that Mary was human. And that Jesus was too. Maybe (probably?!) neither one handled it the best way.
Boy - another question for my pastor (or you!?). As Jesus was fully man and fully God, after the resurrection, is He now ONLY God - or was His human spirit also resurrected? I’m guessing both natures of Him are alive and well in Heaven.