Jesus was brought up by His Father; and I’m not talking about Joseph because Joseph was not His father but His guardian. May I now introduce you to His real daddy; Matthew 1:18 tells us who He is: “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.” Jesus is the child of the Holy Ghost. That’s His daddy, and He was the One who trained Jesus. Remember that as a little boy, He asked the Pharisees and doctors of the Law questions for which they had no answers and then He gave them the answers. How did He know those things? His daddy was there to teach Him.
There’s a period in Jesus’ life commonly referred to by scholars as the silent years: the eighteen years between when He was in the temple at age 12, disputing with the doctors of the Law, and the day He showed up by the river Jordan to be baptized by John. The Bible was silent about those years, not because anything wrong happened but because the Holy Spirit was not through preparing Him for a ministry that would change all of human history forever.
The Holy Spirit is the Captain of the Lord’s host. He is the Master Instructor, Teacher and Guide. He is the One to listen to because it was He who taught Jesus and groomed Him until the appointed time of His showing forth. Let Him train you too and make you a trailblazer in your world.
