Daily Readings for Tuesday January 02,2018

Season of Nativity

1	Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted.
2	Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
3	For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4	But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
5	For each man will have to bear his own load.
6	Let him who is taught the word share all good things with him who teaches.
7	Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
8	For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
9	And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.
10	So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

41	Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.
42	And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom;
43	and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,
44	but supposing him to be in the company they went a day's journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances;
45	and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him.
46	After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions;
47	and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
48	And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously."
49	And he said to them, "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"
50	And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them.
51	And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.
52	And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.