The Rejection of Jesus at Nazareth
- Jesus is unable to work miracles in Nazareth
- This is what Mark is trying to tell us
- Why? Because of the unbelief of those who saw Jesus everyday as he was growing up.
- His was a family simple.
- His was a simple un-noticable life lived.
- Suddenly Jesus was giving them a way of life to live
- And what he was saying was deep
- And the claims he was doing seem far-fetched
- The Messiah and the Son of God
- But did not they see his parents here on earth, with their own eyes
- This actually is the un-acceptable part to his story
- They had put God in a bottle.
- Made him a formula
- Made what God did, said and believed a predictable thing
- This was their error
- And this is our error
- God’s wisdom is available to all
- But that wisdom is at the feet of God
- And that is where we ought to go every time and moment.
- Because God’s wisdom is special in that
- He knows probability
- And much more reality and the choices we make
- And the curve ball at every juncture
- Though we may understand things with an educated guess
- But we will always fail, because we will never know all the factors at play
- And everyone whom our actions may effect
- And the far reaching results of our action….
- The Pharisees failed because they had made religion and God a formula
- Let us discard this attitude in ourselves
- And learn to sit at the feet of Wisdom incarnate.
