The Materialization for The Manifestation

Have you ever wondered what Jesus did for 30 years prior to the beginning of His public ministry? Of course we have the scripture that shows Him in the Temple at 12 years old (Luke 2), but outside of that, we don't read much about Jesus (biblically speaking) until He turns 30 years old and is baptized by John the Baptist (Luke 3). Obviously, the Spirit didn't find it significant to have those 18 years of Jesus's Life recorded in Holy Scripture. But that doesn't mean that those years of His Life weren't important. After all, we are talking about Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God. So what do you think was going on with the Lord during that time frame? I believe He was experiencing the Materialization for the Manifestation.

In order for something to Manifest, the substance thereof has to first Materialize. A lot of people think that Jesus just busted out of the womb and was "ready" to be the Savior of the world. I don't believe that. There was a process that Jesus had to go through that produced the substance and character necessary for Him to fulfill the Call that the Father sent Him to this earth to execute. Let's look at some possible ingredients that facilitated Jesus's Materialization for Manifestation.

One of the first things we look at is that Jesus was subject to His parents (Luke 2). Why is this important? If you can't be subject to God-ordained authority, you won't be subject to the authority of God. Jesus had to learn to submit to the Order that God had placed Him under. And so do we. I can assure you, if you haven't learned to obey, respect and honor your parents, if you don't know how to submit to your pastor or other spiritual authority that God has placed you under; if you have challenges honoring and respecting your teachers or supervisors at work, then you don't have the necessary character Materialized in you to Manifest the son or daughter of God that the Father is calling you to be.

The next thing we see about Jesus was that He was a Student. In the episode at 12 years old, He was "hearing them and asking them questions" (Luke 2). Did Jesus really need to ask them questions? That's what you do when you're a Student. The posture of a Student is that there's always something for Me to learn. Jesus had never been a human being before (at least not that we know of). Even though He might have known the information that the doctors were discussing, His posture of Learning was essential to the Materialization of His Messianic Manifestation.

Lastly, Jesus was committed to growth. The scripture says He "increased in wisdom and stature" (Luke 2). Something's wrong when you feel that you have arrived. Jesus, even as the Son of God, never reached that point. He was always growing. Many believers, particularly preachers and pastors, have grown stagnant in our relationship with God because we have forgotten that there is still areas for which we can grow, develop and increase in wisdom and Christian character. So many believers never maximize their Divine potential because they don't follow through with reaching to become ALL that God has called them to be. Jesus didn't do this. He was always committed, even up to the Cross, to the Materialization for the Manifestation of Him being God in the flesh.