Luke 2:39-52
This passage is of particular importance; it is the only glimpse that God has seen fit to give us of the childhood and boyhood of the Lord Jesus. So we have here, especially for children and young people, the most excellent Example. He is perfect in His relationship with His heavenly Father, whose "business" is given priority over everything else. He is perfect too in His dealings with the doctors in the temple: infinitely wiser than all of them, He does not teach them, but listens to them, and asks them questions, the only attitude suited to His age and to yours. He is perfect too in His relationship with His parents: "He was subject unto them"; v. 51 makes this clear so that we cannot imagine that He had escaped from them through disobedience. The One who was conscious of His sovereignty as Son of God, submitted in complete obedience from His very earliest years in His parents’ home.
Let us finally emphasize the diligence of the child Jesus in the temple and His mature interest in divine truths. Nothing else attracted Him in that famous city of Jerusalem which He was probably visiting for the first time. What value do we attach to the Lord’s presence and to His teaching?