Devotionals

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Where is Jesus! The pains of  Lost treasures

Luke 2:40-46

But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.  And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. 

That moment of assumptive oversight caused great pain for all the member of the family. 

The cost of this assumption was enormous pains; They were all emotionally and physically stressed. There was an avoidable temporary separation from other siblings. It was not a comfortable moment for the family.

Cross-checking matters, it may be laborious, but it is many times a peaceful venture compared with the troubles caused by carelessness.  Negligence is not a virtue, it will always embarrass. It is always painful. Resources, money, time and physical efforts may be committed to finding or re-writing the wrong. That’s if they are amendable.

In this instance, They had to travel a day’s journey before discovering that Jesus was missing. There was probably a stand still while they were checking and searching through their kinsfolks and acquaintances, Where is Jesus!. The hours spent in doing this was not specified. They began another day journey back to Jerusalem. This was  without the  certainty of where  this eternal treasure could be found.

Where could other children of theirs be kept; With their kinsfolk or acquaintance? Certainly they were not in that journeying back  with Mr and Mrs. Joseph. What is the financial and emotional implication of that journey back and the separation between their children. This was an emergency, they did not plan for it.

The process of finding Jesus back and bringing him certainly cost them A week or more, aside other resources deployed to achieve this. 

Then began the journey back home to Nazareth. May be additional two days. A lot of unplanned resources were put into the getting back what was lost through assumption; Just ignoring a moment to cross check could wreck many havocs which may be of eternal implication.  Some may not be able to survive while it may take fortunes and years to recover.  Such  assumption like this, had  caused  serious quarrel and marital misunderstanding in many homes.  Each person passing the bulks.

People who are lazy, impatience, love to flow with crowd, overconfident, proud or ignorant have tendencies to live  few or major parts of their lives on assumptions. Their day to day is credited to many assumptions. They could be dangerous set of human being to deal and live with.
Prayers

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