The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

shall be wholly consecrated to the ^business' of
our Father. But there was far more than this in the
bearing of Christ on this occasion. That
forgetfulness of EQs Child-life was a sacrifice—a
sacrifice of self; that entire absorption in Hi'ft
Father's business, without a thought of self, either
in the gratification of curiosity, the acquisition of
knowledge, or personal ambition—a consecration
of Himself unto Ood. It was the first manifestation
of His passive and active obedience to the Will of
Gtod. Even at this stage, it was the forth-bursting
of the inmost meaning of His Life: ^ My meat is to
do the Will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His
work.' And yet this awakening of the Christconsciousness
on EUs first visit to the Temple,
partial, and perhaps even temporary, as it may
have been, seems itself like the morning-dawn,
which from the pinnacle of the Temple the Priest
watched, ere he suromoned his waiting brethren
beneath to offer the early sacrifice.
From what we have already learned of this
History, we do not wonder that the answer of Jesus