Child Custody

“So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You done this to us? Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously.” And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭2:48-49‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://bible.com/114/luk.2.48-49.nkjv

The custody of a child in broken homes is always a messy circumstance and mostly a nightmare experience for the upbringing of useful children in the society. However, healthy homes sometimes are not completely exempted from the challenges of custody in a parent-children relationship. While the 3-day frustrating experience of the Boy Jesus’ parents during the search for the missing child in Jerusalem does not encourage disobedience and a lack of submission from children to the authority of parents, it does open the hearts of parents to the need to allow a possible interference of the Heavenly Father while exercising the parents’ right to child custody. Instead of responding to the frustration of the parents, the Boy Jesus asked “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?”. What if parents can sometimes pause their possessiveness in the educational, social and cultural upbringing of their wards in order to reflect and respond to the call to the Heavenly Father’s business? When the scriptures admonished the parents to train up the child in the way he should go, most parents are completely ignorant of the recommended way themselves. Unfortunately, we are often too filled with our own ways...and there is always no allowance for accommodating the recommendations of the Lord.