Imagine the questions that Jesus might have had during his hidden years about the goodness of God and his timing. How must it have felt—knowing he had the power to heal—to have to walk past children suffering with leprosy? What would have run through his mind when—though he knew he was God’s chosen Savior—he had to listen in silence as others doubted that the Messiah would ever come? What would it have been like—knowing that his conception was miraculous—to be unable to defend his mother when others whispered about her past? How hard would it have been—with unsurpassed wisdom growing in his
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