Jesus went his own way...for us

Look at the story of Jesus' boyhood trip to the Temple in Luke 2:41-51.
 
Notice what Jesus said in v.49. “I must be in my Father’s house.”  Sometimes you read this verse this way, “I must do my Father’s business.”  “I must;” Jesus said this often. “I must preach the good news of the gospel.”  “I must go on my way to be the prophet.”  “I the Son of Man must suffer many things.”  “I must go to your house to day Zacchaeus.”  “I must go to Jerusalem.”  God the Father, Jesus knew, was calling him.  He knew he was on a mission from the Father, and he was beginning to learn that he was the Messiah, the Savior of the world.  Here Jesus as a boy really went his own way…for you and me.  Here we learn that he would have to obey God rather than man, even his parents, and serve God his Father…all the way to the cross so you and I could be saved.