Costly Assumption Of Some Christians

Some Christians believe as long as they still perform miracles and things are going well for them, then they're in right standing with God. They've tagged prosperity with godliness and use possessions to assume God is still with them. Unfortunately, God isn't a man who torments another by withdrawing one's privileges because one is far from him—his ways aren't the ways of men.

Luke 2:41-47 teaches us one important lesson. Jesus and his parents went to a Passover feast as they usually did. But this time, Jesus stayed back with the scribes and teachers of the law in the temple, and his parents weren't aware. They assumed he had gone home with his friends, only to realize at the end that they had assumed wrongly. It took them three days to return before they finally saw him.

This story, like every other Bible story, may seem casual, but there are a few important notes to take. First, this Passover feast was constant; it was something that happened regularly. Second, Jesus went missing without even his parents, who were with him, noticing. Third, they assumed he was there, and it took them three days to find him.

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Just like his parents, many Christians have casualized fellowship, and that's because this gathering is regular. Even when Jesus is missing in our lives or in the activities that we do, we never notice. We always assume he is there, and sometimes it takes a long journey to notice he wasn't there all along. We assume things going well means Jesus is with us; we assume a preacher who still performs miracles still has Jesus with him; we assume the ability to prophesy still means Jesus is with us. But unfortunately, he is not in the journey. We go all the way home not knowing Jesus wasn't tagged along.

But the parents didn't stop there. When they realized he wasn't with them, they turned back and went searching for him until they found him. This should be the response of every believer who has noticed the drift—to return and seek for him. It may take three days or longer, but the important thing is that we don't stay back; we turn around to seek for him.