John the Baptizer is attributed as being a voice crying in the wilderness preparing the way for the Christ.
Did he start his job as soon as he was born? Little Ida Claire (named after the Gulf Coast Hurricane in her honor and when you say it together you get, well, I dee clare, a wonderful Suthern xprehshun) sure announces her presence by crying. She gets the whole house's attention. Was this what the Bible means when it described JB as a voice crying? I doubt it, but it sure fits.
And what about little baby Jesus himself? Here is the Word of God lying in a manger, one week and a half after bring born, not being able to say one syllable. He could only cry. And since this was their firstborn, were they able to understand what he was trying to communicate?
WOW. How humbling for God in human flesh, who could not speak but cry.
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Wondering about Christ as a Child and a young man has been a past-time of many, over the centuries.
Over the years I have read the apocryphal text,the banned-books text, the Indian and Kashmirie stories,
and the fanciful spiritual insight stories of both the Eastern and Western traditions.
I would venture an opinion that Jesus came to know he was the "Christ" gradually. Mainly because he could not be human unless he experienced all of being human. Ignorance of one's self is so very central to humanity's plight.
I know this does not correspond to the comic book version Christ many Christian have, and I also realize that our asylums are full of people who "realized" they were Christ gradually.
But I would submit that the journey Jesus took to full knowlege of his relationship to God is like unto the pathway he sets us on when we first profess our faith. In the end, One-ness with Christ in God is the destination.
Yes, I may have gotten too speculative myself in my reflections.
However, IF Jesus as a human realized he was the Christ, I would say it happened when he recognized who his father was.
They say infants can not tell the difference between someone touching them and they touching themselves until later in life. Figuratively, that could have happened with the baby Jesus. He would not have had the mental nor emotional capability to know who he was until, like I said, he realized who his father was. And that would have been before he was 12. It seems that at the temple he was fully aware of himself and what he was to be about.
But it's all speculation =)
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