In this message from Luke 2:41-49, Pastor Paul Chapman opens the only recorded glimpse of Christ's boyhood in all of Scripture and draws out a powerful, practical truth: you always find Jesus where you left Him. The account is deceptively simple. Every year, faithful Jewish families made the 70-mile pilgrimage from Nazareth to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. On the return journey, Mary and Joseph traveled a full day's journey before they realized that 12-year-old Jesus was not with them. They "supposed Him to be in the company." They assumed He was following along. This message is a mirror. And if you've ever drifted away from God — slowly, subtly, without making a conscious decision to — you'll see yourself in this story. Pastor Paul walks through three important truths: First, you can lose Jesus and not realize it. Four things quietly rob believers of God's presence: distraction, deception, presumption, and carelessness. Like Samson, who shook himself expecting God's power to well up within him — only to find that the Lord had departed — many Christians today carry their Bibles, use the language of faith, and go through the motions of church while the presence of God has been quietly absent for months or even years. Second, you won't find Jesus looking in the wrong places. When Mary and Joseph couldn't find Jesus in the crowd, they searched among family and friends first. The temple was the last place they looked. We do the same thing: entertainment instead of His joy, romance instead of His peace, success instead of His purpose, religious activity instead of genuine relationship. None of these substitutes can give us what only the presence of Jesus can.