Sor-ray...?

In Gulu you pick up the "Sor-ray" bug...someone drops something, you say "sor-ray". Someone has a headache, you say "sor-ray". It just goes everywhere. Kinda funny.

I am also someone who always wants peace. Sometimes I look into it too much and say sorry for things I really don't need to in the eyes of others. Sometimes, I say it and it doesn't change anything. But I say it and don't really think about it in terms of it being needed or not...I just say it because I am compelled to because somewhere in me, I know it is warranted.

"When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and His mother said to Him,
"Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously
searching for You."
"Why were you searching for Me?" He asked them. "Didn't you know that I had to be
in my Father's house?" But they did not understand what He said to them.
Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His
mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and
stature, and in favor with God and with people. ~ Luke 2: 48-52

Jesus was like 12 years old here. He was seperated from his earthly parents during a crazy festival time. After a day his parents realized he wasn't around when they left the city for home. They returned to the city only to find him three days later in the temple hashing it out with priests and scribes.

They were astonished to have found their boy and rightfully freaked out a bit. As a typical parent raising a close to teenage boy their response was "why did you do this to us?" Pretty much, why did you want to hurt us?

His response is classic Jesus - even at 12.

"You should have known where I was. You know who I am - regardless. I am the Son of God, therefore with my Father. Since I am the Son of God I am perfect and would never do anything disobedient, harmful or wrong. Why would you doubt me?"

Notice what he DIDN'T say?

"Oh, mom, dad, I am sorry - didn't mean to freak you out."

Jesus didn't say sorry. He didn't need to because his parents should have known better who he was and what his purpose was. To question it was completely forgetting everything they were told about who he was in the grand scheme of things - not just a 12 year old boy. Jesus could have said sorry; by our terms and expectations, he should have..but he is God, he didn't do anything wrong. He followed God's expectations, not man's...he was fully with God the Father and nowhere else. Nowhere else. With God. Not farting around like a teenage boy, but with God. If his parents were seperated from him, it wasn't like they couldn't find him...it would be obvious to where he would be.

So when Jesus is nowhere to be found, or seems distant, or we get a little confused, or a little disjointed from him...don't freak out. Don't expect him to say "sorry you couldn't find me...I mean I know where I have been this whole time, but since you forgot or didn't want to admit where I was, or just plain mad at me for where I was because that isn't where you wanted to go..." (and the excuses could go on and on...). He won't say sorry. God doesn't say sorry. He doesn't do anything wrong. It doesn't go the way we want or feel it needs to isn't his fault. It just isn't.

Jesus knew how his mother felt. Just imagine with me, after she pleaded with him asking why he would do this to her, he quietly jumped off the chair and just followed his parents out. No more discussion. And the kicker is, he then chose to remain obedient to his parents for the rest of his life. He chose...and he grew to be a man all could respect and found favor with not only man but with his Father.

And never once was it recorded that he said sorry...not once.