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7 Comments A toddler who wont punch you in the neck.
So this morning I took candy away from my baby. Boy found a piece of Laffy Taffy on the floor and was trying to cram it in his face.
Where does he learn that kind of nonsense?
I sat down next to him and took it away gently. Anger arose in his little baby heart.
And he acted on that anger almost immediately.
We have these daily hourly outbursts of selfishness and disobedience.
And it being Christmas and all, I began wondering about the most righteous kid EVER. And I don’t just mean “righteous”.
I also mean….
Or more accurately…
And I BET that after the first time Mary had to tell Jesus not to shred the toilet paper, he never did it again! (Not to say he wasn’t tempted….)
I wonder if there was no open defiance. 
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I have to think that his terrible two’s were a big, non-terrible piece of cake. 
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And to think that Jesus even had siblings. Siblings that he most likely didn’t punch in the neck.
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Not to say his siblings didn’t occasionally have reason to glare…..
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But what I find so fascinating is that this perfect child grew into a perfect teenager and a perfect adult. And then he willingly died for us to save us from our angry, selfish, nasty little hearts.
Righteous!
Funny, the apocrypha has multiple stories (in the Infancy Gospels) about Jesus killing people as a child (one for merely bumping into him). These texts were deemed “not divinely inspired” and relegated to the dustbin of history. As a father of three (including two boys) I have to admit that I’m glad my kids don’t have super-powers. I’d have been killed long ago.
Yeah i guess that would be slightly inconsistent with his turn-the-other-cheek teachings. one that my own toddlers do not closely follow…….
Some better Brother-Days are coming…you just need to wait a few more years. In the meantime, do a better job of hiding your candy.
I THOUGHT I hid all my candy down my throat. That was the one that got away….
Thank you Jesus!!!!!!!!
לא ידעתי שאתה יודע עברית.
ok so i was thinking about this too…but it says he “grew in wisdom” which to me equals “foolish child” …he had to be foolish at times but he learned wisdom–im sure he stood up at dinner and spilled his juice on the pita bread!