The choosing and calling of the eternal Father were more
than everything else. It was fixed in her heart that somehow her
Boy was sent to do a great work for Israel. He was the son of God
set apart to save his people and bring back the glory of Zion.
He was to fulfil the promises made in olden time and bring in the
wonderful reign of the Messiah in the world--perhaps as a forerunner
and messenger of the great King, or perhaps himself--ah, she did
not know! But she believed in her Boy with her whole soul; and she
was sure that his Father would show him what to do.
These sayings, coming amid the excitements of his first journey,
his visit to the Temple, his earliest sight of the splendor and
confusion and misery of the great city, had sunken all the more
deeply into the Boy's mind. Excitement does not blur the impressions
of youth; it sharpens them, makes them more vivid. Half-covered
and hardly noticed at the time, they spring up into life when the
quiet hour comes.
So the Boy remembered his mother's words while he lay watching the
sunrise.
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