What would it be like raising God?

[rarndt01]

I was thinking yesterday about our blessed mother Mary and what it must have been like raising up Jesus who was God in the flesh. Was she afraid to spank him as a boy for misbehaving? What about just scolding him? Yikes! One would be terrified to say anything to God, right. He could make me disappear real fast or turn me to stone.Have you ever thought of Mother Mary as a Mom and what it must have been really like?
Ron from Ohio

 

[Exporter]

I am no youngster, and I have never seen or heard of the childhood of Jesus except when He was left in the Temple.

Don’t you think that if God had chosen Mary to be the Mother of Jesus/God, He, God, would have given her the “tools” to be a perfect Mother? I have read fairy tales about Jesus as a boy bringing a dead bird back to life. Those were fairy tales.:tiphat:

 

[Tom]

rarndt01:

Was she afraid to spank him as a boy for misbehaving?

God misbehaving? Think about it… LOL

 

[Didi]

I was thinking about the Holy Family a few months ago when it was St. Joseph’s feast day. I was feeling a bit sorry for him, having to live with two perfect and sinless people – can you imagine how annoying that must have been sometimes (HA!).

Seriously, though, how wonderful to live in a home of holiness, love, kindness and forgiveness. Joseph must have been a truly wonderful man for God to have chosen him to be Jesus’ earthly father!

Think about Joseph trying to teach Jesus about woodworking. As all young adolescents do, Jesus probably thought he knew a better way to do it than His Dad (Jesus did have to learn to use his human body and gain human skills). Can’t you imagine the conversation “Son, I know you’re God, but I really do know how to put this table together!”

I’m sure there was a lot of humor, love and laughter in their family. The one scene in The Passion movie where Jesus is building the table, and the banter between Jesus and His Blessed Mother is just priceless!

I’m sure for Mary there were times when she doubted how she was handling things, but she also had great trust in God. She must have prayed constantly!

 

[JimG]

Anything about the early years of Jesus is pure speculation (other than what is recorded in the gospel), and is probably not a profitable line of inquiry. If it had been our business, the gospel writers might have said something about it.

 

[RobedWithLight]

The question is not an easy one to answer. In the first place, there are no biblical accounts of Jesus’ childhood, the so-called missing years. All we can say here are purely speculative. However, to speculate just a bit, perhaps Jesus lived like the normal kids in the neighborhood. He ate, slept, joked, played, and learned household chores from Joseph and Mary, since we know He is just as human as any other, though He is likewise divine. The only thing we can be sure He didn’t do was sin.

Gerry

 

[T.A.Stobie_SFO]

Jesus always lived the ten commandments, including “Honor your father and mother” which would also include a foster parent.

If God gave you the task to raise His son, he is giving you the authority and responsibility to raise him well.

Jesus did grow in knowledge and experience as a human. He was taught by his parents.

So to the answer the question, raising Jesus is like raising any child with the exeption that he does not sin.

 

[DaveBj]

These are precisely the kinds of questions that prompted Mark Lowery to write the song “Mary Did You Know,” which has come under some criticism in these forums.

DaveBj

 

[Detroit_Sue]

The only criticism that my husband had of “The Passion,” is the scene where Jesus is building the table, and His Mother had to reprimand Him to remove His dirty apron. Although this is a very sweet scene, do you think Christ really ever had to be reprimanded?

 

[SeekerJen]

Detroit Sue:

The only criticism that my husband had of “The Passion,” is the scene where Jesus is building the table, and His Mother had to reprimand Him to remove His dirty apron. Although this is a very sweet scene, do you think Christ really ever had to be reprimanded?

I loved that scene. Remember, He was human, too. It wasn’t a sin for Him to be wearing a dirty apron, but there was nothing wrong with Mary teasingly reminding Him to take it off before coming in the clean house.

I don’t know why, but I’ve never had a problem imagining Jesus as a normal child- one who gets into mischief, but not in a malicious or sinful way. I could always picture Him pulling everything out of a kitchen cupboard in play (as I saw a friend’s niece do last weekend), or making a mess with his food as a toddler, or reaching for something on a hot stove or for one of Joseph’s tools. The last one would certainly require reprimanding, not because it was sinful but because it was dangerous and a child would need to be warned not to do it again. Also, remember when Jesus stayed behind in the temple? When Mary found Him, she did reprimand Him (deservedly so, I thought- He didn’t tell her what He was doing).

 

[jess7396]

SeekerJen:

I don’t know why, but I’ve never had a problem imagining Jesus as a normal child- one who gets into mischief, but not in a malicious or sinful way. I could always picture Him pulling everything out of a kitchen cupboard in play (as I saw a friend’s niece do last weekend), or making a mess with his food as a toddler, or reaching for something on a hot stove or for one of Joseph’s tools. The last one would certainly require reprimanding, not because it was sinful but because it was dangerous and a child would need to be warned not to do it again. Also, remember when Jesus stayed behind in the temple? When Mary found Him, she did reprimand Him (deservedly so, I thought- He didn’t tell her what He was doing).

:yup: That’s what I was thinking too .

 

[carol_marie]

I was so happy to learn that despite what I had always been told, Jesus did NOT have brothers or sisters. Can you imagine how annoying that would’ve been? Your parents always saying… “Why can’t you be more like your brother Jesus…?” And when they did something wrong and tried to pin it on him… “I didn’t eat all the fig cookies… it must’ve been Jesus!” And then Mary & Joseph would’ve been like, “Yeah right!” It’s a good thing he was an only child.

 

[DaveBj]

carol marie:

I was so happy to learn that despite what I had always been told, Jesus did NOT have brothers or sisters. Can you imagine how annoying that would’ve been? Your parents always saying… “Why can’t you be more like your brother Jesus…?” And when they did something wrong and tried to pin it on him… “I didn’t eat all the fig cookies… it must’ve been Jesus!” And then Mary & Joseph would’ve been like, “Yeah right!” It’s a good thing he was an only child.

And can you just imagine the supposed younger siblings when Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, getting together and whispering, “This is sooooooooo cool! He is in sooooooooo much trouble!!!”

DaveBj