Not qualified

Thinking today about Jesus not being qualified. Not selected as one of the chosen few to study and train as a rabbi.
Why not?
It seems to have been obvious from an early age that he was interested in and committed to God's way of life.
When, at the age of twelve, he took time out from a group trip from his home town to Jerusalem and went missing for three days, it wasn't to go on the razzle but to spend all that time in the Temple. Listening to the leading Jewish scholars discussing the scriptures.
The gospels recount that they were amazed by the questions he asked and the answers he gave. So he must have shown inclination, intelligence, aptitude.
Why didn't the local rabbi or religious elders pick him out?
His attitude?
Later on, people who didn't know him called him 'Rabbi', automatically. They commented that he taught with authority, not quibbling over non-essential points or quoting everyone else's theories to prove how learned he was.
How learned was he?
When he was getting known farther afield for the things he was saying and for the people he healed of incurable illnesses, he went back to visit his home town. They were impressed with the accounts of what he'd been doing - news had reached them about their local boy hitting the headlines - and they were amazed by the depth of his knowledge of God and by his confidence when he spoke.
But they confirmed that he didn't have any formal training for this. The buzz, among them, was: 'Where did he get his learning?'
If they didn't know - and he'd grown up with them - then presumably he hadn't got his learning from the usual sources. He wasn't trained by anyone they knew.
Unlike the people he healed and preached to, the neighbours didn't call him 'Rabbi'. They called him 'the carpenter's son.' Not qualified as anything except an artisan.
I've met some people who seem to have a naturally spiritual character. Some of them have been children who have had a kind of ability for seeing straight into people's souls. Some of those children have been severely handicapped. They've had an unerring instinct for what's good and what's fake. They haven't been taught that.
The followers Jesus picked weren't qualified either. Some of them were so totally unqualified to be 'holy people' giving their lives up for God that it was a joke. Or blasphemous. According to the qualified holy folk in positions of authority.
He called people who weren't even religious. Whose lives had been anything but holy. Who didn't understand much about God, except that it had been made very clear to them - by those who made their living out of understanding God - that God wouldn't want them.
Jesus's whole message to them was that God did. He wanted the unqualified. Because only God can qualify a person to live a life that counts for good. If they're full of their own qualifications, or society's, and that's what their life depends on, then they're not depending on God. And in God's eyes they're unqualified.
On the other hand, if they know they don't deserve God to be good to them, to pick them out and call them to live his kind of life, to forgive them, teach them, turn their life around - they're in.
Qualified.
Confident.
And ready to be as effective for God as Jesus was.
How astonishing is that?