Consider Jesus words as you meditate on
this Scripture today.
Then he said, "You will undoubtedly
quote me this proverb: 'Physician, heal yourself'--meaning, 'Do miracles here
in your hometown like those you did in Capernaum.' But I tell you the truth, no
prophet is accepted in his own hometown. "Certainly there were many needy
widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heavens were closed for three and a
half years, and a severe famine devastated the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to
any of them. He was sent instead to a foreigner--a widow of Zarephath in the
land of Sidon. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet
Elisha, but the only one healed was Naaman, a Syrian." When they heard
this, the people in the synagogue were furious. Jumping up, they mobbed him and
forced him to the edge of the hill on which the town was built. They intended
to push him over the cliff, but he passed right through the crowd and went on
his way. Luke 4:23-30
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| Synagogue in Capernaum where Jesus did miracles. |
The people in the synagogue in Nazareth had
just listened to Jesus reading scripture from Isaiah. They merely saw Him as
the son of Joseph, the carpenter, not as a prophet. Then Jesus used examples of
earlier prophets, but it just made them mad. They didn’t accept Him in His
hometown.
He didn't do miracles in Nazareth like He id in Capernaum. Even if He had done miracles in Nazareth, they wouldn’t have believed
in Him. They would have like nothing better than to have gotten rid of Him—pushed
Him over a cliff, but He disappeared. He could do that…and did. He went on his
way.
Would you have believed in Jesus if you had
grown up with Him in Nazareth? Imagine
playing ball with him...or watching Him build something from wood or stone in Joseph's workshop. Could you believe in Him now, as your Lord and
Savior…as the Son of God?
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Prayer
~ Lord Jesus, just as You read…“The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for You are
anointed to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent You to proclaim that
captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be
set free, and that the time of the LORD's favor has come." Luke 4:18-19.
Lord, Your prophesies were fulfilled in the past…and we’re counting on them to
be fulfilled in the future. We look forward to the rapture…and Your return.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
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