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My tennis shoes thumped on the sidewalk and I stretched my arms, feeling the Colorado sun warm my body that had been stuck in office air conditioning all morning. I glanced up at the blue sky as I walked. \u201cGod?\u201d I prayed silently. \u201cWhat\u2019s next?\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t like I was discontent \u2014 far from it. In the past two years, I had moved 700 miles from home, started my first full-time job, graduated college, met and married my husband, and landed a promotion at work. At 24, I was happy, and exactly where I wanted to be in life. But even with all of these \u201csuccesses\u201d behind me, one question still lingered in the back of my mind: God, am I doing enough<\/u> for You? <\/em><\/p>\n

A few days later, a friend of mine, also in her 20s, expressed similar thoughts. \u201cGod has given me so much,\u201d she explained, \u201cand here I am \u2014 single, working a part-time customer service job, and living with my parents. Nothing I\u2019m doing right now really matters. I feel like God is so disappointed in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

I thought about her words as I drove home that night. My friend seemed to think that once she got married, moved out, and found a full-time job, she would stop feeling the sense of restless guilt. But here I was, on the other side of those milestones, still feeling like I was somehow failing God. Like my small, ordinary life didn\u2019t contribute much. That I too wasn\u2019t doing anything that really mattered.<\/p>\n

Comparing my life to Jesus\u2019<\/h4>\n

I sat on my bed and pulled out my Bible. As I opened to my bookmarked spot in Luke, my eyes fell on a verse I hadn\u2019t really noticed before. \u201cJesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age\u2026\u201d (Luke 3:23<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I circled that age and then set my pen down. Hmm. 30. <\/em>And for the first time, I started to consider something I hadn\u2019t before. I wonder what Jesus did in His 20s. <\/em><\/p>\n

I started flipping through the Gospels, scanning the different accounts of Jesus\u2019 life. I flipped and flipped, looking for any indication of how Jesus spent His first 30 years.<\/p>\n

There wasn\u2019t much.<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s the account of Jesus\u2019 bizarrely beautiful birth<\/a>. There\u2019s the story about Him getting separated from His parents when He was 12 and preaching in the temple<\/a>. There\u2019s the verse that tells us He \u201cincreased in wisdom and stature<\/a>.\u201d But as for any clues to what He did as a 20-something, there was nothing.<\/p>\n

I bit my lip and stared out the window at the streetlights. \u201cGod?\u201d I prayed again, this time in a whisper. \u201cI wish I knew what Jesus did in His 20s. It would help me know what I should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

An idea popped into my head.<\/p>\n

I picked up my phone and Googled \u201cWhat did Jesus do in his 20s?\u201d And there it was. Historians believe that Jesus spent the unrecorded years of His life in His hometown, working with His dad as a carpenter.<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

I picked up my Bible again, and as I dug in, clues started jumping up all over the place.<\/p>\n

In Luke 4<\/a>, Jesus goes to the synagogue and reads a prophecy from Isaiah. When He finishes, it sounds like the people in the synagogue just stand there with their mouths open. Not because of what He says<\/em>, but because of who He is<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>Isn\u2019t that Joseph\u2019s son<\/a>?\u201d <\/em>they ask each other. They seem surprised that Joseph’s son amounted to anything. They had obviously never looked at young Jesus and thought, Hmm. That kid will do great things someday<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As I stared at the gap on the page \u2014 the place in my Bible where Jesus\u2019 life between ages 12 and 30 would have been recorded \u2014 I was surprised to feel tears sting my eyes. Jesus lived the most important life of any of us. He literally saved the world. But for more than 99 percent of His precious, short life, He lived under the radar. Working as a carpenter. Why would God do that?<\/p>\n

I started flipping pages again, and the answer soon became clear. Sure, Jesus was fully God, but He was also fully man. That meant He fully lived the human experience: its joys, sorrows, temptations \u2014 and even the bland ordinariness of average, seemingly inconsequential days. \u00a0Moreover, all of the amazing characteristics reflected in Jesus in His 30s \u2014 a good friend, a compassionate helper, a kindhearted servant, and a deep relationship with the Father \u2014 must be a reflection of how he spent his 20s.<\/p>\n

As evidenced by Scripture, here are six things Jesus must have done in His 20s:<\/p>\n

1. He studied and memorized Scripture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Jesus is in the wilderness \u2014 exhausted, hungry, alone and vulnerable, Satan uses the opportunity to attack and tempt Jesus to question His identity. Jesus quotes Scripture in defense. Jesus\u2019 years as a student of the Law is apparent here. He dedicated himself early on to a knowledge and application of the truth, just as I must now.<\/p>\n

2. He made a habit of quiet time with God.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout the few years of His recorded life, we see Jesus repeatedly retreat from everyone else to pray. I don\u2019t know about you, but if I\u2019m not intentional about my time with God, it doesn\u2019t really happen. Life gets busy. Jesus was busy, too. But it\u2019s obvious He prioritized communing with the Father long before his public ministry started \u2014 and that included His 20s.<\/p>\n

3. He stayed home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Jesus first reads the prophecy I mentioned above, He\u2019s in His hometown at the synagogue, and we learn it \u201cwas His custom\u201d to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath. When Jesus is on the cross in His last horrible moments of life, the sign reads \u201cJesus of Nazareth\u201d (hardly the ancient equivalent<\/a> of New York, Paris or Tokyo). Even if you count all the places Jesus traveled in His life, it was a very small area compared to the entire world. In short, Jesus didn\u2019t go backpacking across the world. He didn\u2019t chase experiences. He didn\u2019t have a bucket list. He lived his 20s in a quiet and very small-town way.<\/p>\n

4. He spent a lot of time with His parents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus learned his carpenter trade from His dad and continued to work with him well into adulthood. When He does His first recorded miracle at the wedding in Cana, He\u2019s there with his mom. On the cross, He transfers care of His mom to John, indicating their close bond. Jesus lived with, worked with, and wasn\u2019t ashamed to be with his parents.<\/p>\n

5. He worked an ordinary blue-collar job and did \u201clife\u201d stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus is referred to as \u201dthe carpenter\u2019s son\u201d (Matthew 13:55<\/a>). What\u2019s more, tradition indicates that Joseph died a few years before Jesus\u2019 public ministry. Jesus likely took over His dad\u2019s business, managed the bills, and helped His mom run the household.<\/p>\n

6. He built relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The older I get, the more it becomes clear that friendship is a skill just like anything else. It takes practice to know how to relate to people and navigate inevitable conflict. Jesus had His share of detractors. Even His own brothers didn\u2019t believe in Him at first (John 7:3-5<\/a>). \u00a0Yet He \u201cgrew in favor with God and man\u201d (Luke 2:52<\/a>), so He clearly had friends and practiced\u00a0 relationship skills over the years.<\/p>\n

Lean into the ordinary<\/h4>\n

I stopped writing, sat back on the couch, and looked out the window. Jesus\u2019 life before the age of 30 \u2014 at least what we know of his 20s and younger \u2014 could best be described in one word: ordinary.<\/p>\n

Why are we afraid to be ordinary?<\/p>\n

If a mostly \u201cordinary\u201d life was enough for the Son of God, why am I (and most of my 20-something friends) so convinced that we need to be something more than ordinary<\/em> to please God, others, and \u2014 if we\u2019re honest \u2014 ourselves?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what I think happened. For the most part, the generation that raised us played it safe, and maybe looking back, now has some regrets. Our parents, crazy about us, didn\u2019t want us to miss anything in life, so we were encouraged to get degrees, find good jobs, and backpack across the world because \u201cyou\u2019ll never be able to do that again once you settle down.\u201d<\/p>\n

We heard about people in their 20s (and younger) doing amazing things. Writing books. Starting nonprofits. People like Katie Davis Majors, who went to Africa at age 18 to adopt 12 girls and start an orphanage. In her book \u201cKisses From Katie,\u201d she says that staying in her hometown, getting a \u201cregular\u201d job and getting married would have brought her \u201ccomplacency, comfort and ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n

I understand Katie\u2019s point. And I\u2019m not questioning that she is doing what God called her to do. But as someone who is currently working a \u201cregular\u201d job and building a family, I\u2019d argue that my life breeds anything but complacency, comfort and ignorance.<\/p>\n

Being married has been wonderful, but it\u2019s also opened my eyes to my own selfishness, which daily makes me squirm. I love my coworkers, but hearing about their lives reminds me that many of them deal with unspeakable pain every day. My job is great, but the daily grind forces me to lean into God to stay focused and diligent. And I have great parents and in-laws, but merging our families has taught me that everyday relationships are sometimes the most difficult things on earth to navigate.<\/p>\n

Recently the coronavirus has forced us all into a more ordinary life than we ever expected. So let me invite you \u2014 lean into the ordinary<\/em>. As you work from home, cycle through the same few recipes, and watch the same church service online, the ordinary will begin to surprise you. I promise, if you\u2019re connected with God in day to day life, the ordinary is filled with refining moments, heart-bursting joy, real courage, and most of all \u2014 a deep sense of purpose. You\u2019ll realize that \u201cordinary\u201d life is full of gritty, difficult, stretching and beautiful moments \u2014 and most definitely \u201ccounts\u201d in God\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be like Jesus in His 20s. Let\u2019s embrace the ordinary, knowing that this is the good stuff<\/a>. This is where real life is. And remember that when God spoke from heaven and said to Jesus, \u201cYou are my beloved son; with you I am well pleased,\u201d it wasn\u2019t after Jesus had performed miracles, preached the Sermon on the Mount, or died on the cross. It was after Jesus had faithfully lived 30 largely unrecorded years. Years that, in light of eternity, were anything but ordinary.<\/p>\n

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