Luke 2:50-51 And they understood not the saying which he spoke to them.… The earthly call found Him, too. It was His duty, when found, to go with His parents, and He went. Ponder that. Hint of universal significance. Never trust a heavenly call which bids you neglect your obvious duties whilst they remain such. The things that lie near to your hand, round about you, are as much the Father's business as anything else. Don't think that being off to early, communion, and neglecting, . your children, and your husband and your housework, is doing your Father s business. Don't suppose that charity out of the house, and dancing attendance on the clergyman to the neglect of hearth and home, is your Father's business. Learn of the Saviour. When the home claim came He immediately left what, at the moment, was of absorbing interest to Him; He left the excitement of Jerusalem, the high pressure atmosphere of religious emotion — with its thrills of new knowledge and its vistas of new thought — and went quietly back eighty miles to the little rustic hamlet in the north, and the carpenter's shop at Nazareth. What divinity lies here I What Divine philosophy and Divine life, which is also a most human, a most simple, a most homely life. (H. R. Haweis, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.WEB: They didn't understand the saying which he spoke to them. |
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