They had to come to go!

It is every parents fear and it seems to happen to all parents that at one time or another they cannot find their child.  It happened to us, it happened to me as a child and it happened to my wife.  When she got lost in a store she did what we tell our children all the time not to do and that is leave the store.  She went out of the store to her parents car and eventually they came out not knowing where else to look and there she was.  Her explanation, "I knew you had to come to go!"
When my in laws lived next door to us we left our son at church.  We thought that he had gone home with his grandparents but when we got home he wasn't with them.  We called the church and the pastor was still there.  Our son figured that he could stay there until the next men's breakfast.  However, this was Christmas eve.
Jesus also got left behind.  His parents thought that he was with his friends and it wasn't until they took stock that night that they realized that he wasn't with them, he had been left behind.  When they found him he was in the temple talking with the elders.  Some think that he was teaching them but I think he was listening and asking questions.  He had a desire to learn.  Yes he was God but he had laid aside his divinity and became a child.  As a child he learned like other children learn.  He learned by asking questions and listening to those older than he.