Why were you looking for me? - Questions from Jesus - Steven Gibbs | Stonecreek Church

Your consistent habits communicate your crucial values. Are you creating habits that bring you back to the goodness of God or do they have you looking for Jesus in places He can’t be found? This past Sunday we heard from Pastor Steven as he unpacked Luke 2:41-52 and the first question Jesus ever asked: “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” When we take Jesus for granted, we run the risk of losing track of Him all together. Jesus is waiting for you; He’s inviting you back to His Father’s house.

“Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom. And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, but supposing him to be in the group they went a day’s journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, ‘Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.’ And he said to them, ‘Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man.”

Luke 2:41-52

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

Consistency will take you where convenience can’t.

What do your consistent rhythms say about your crucial values?

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Mark 8:36

Have you taken Jesus for granted?

It’s in the grind that you find the goodness of God.

What is your growth plan?

Is there something you need to go back to?

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, 'Abba! Father!

Romans 8:15

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God; so we are.

1 John 3:1

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Matthew 7:11