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Reading: Luke 4:23-44<\/b><\/p>\n
One thing that impressed me this morning in this passage is several of the responses to Jesus and His teaching. I’ve selected three to mention.<\/p>\n
“No prophet is accepted in his own country”<\/font><\/b> (24).<\/p>\n How nice it would have been had they accepted Him as their “favorite son.” But they didn’t — because He was of them and well-known to them.<\/p>\n Having grown up with Jesus, perhaps there is the danger that He is somehow too familiar to me to impress me as I ought to be impressed. I hope not!<\/p>\n As an aside here, it occurs to me that there’s a man in our church whose acceptance in my eyes has been diminishing because I know him as well as I do. That needs to change!<\/p>\n “And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath”<\/font><\/b> (28).<\/p>\n They didn’t like His message and were so overcome with anger at Him that they set out (unsuccessfully) to kill Him.<\/p>\n I don’t think I’ve ever responded to Jesus that way. Or have I? Such as when I don’t like what one of His human mouthpieces has to say?<\/p>\n “And the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed with him, that he should not depart from them”<\/font><\/b> (42).<\/p>\n These people even looked Him up in the desert and then didn’t want Him to leave them again.<\/p>\n That’s how I want to be. I don’t want Him to leave me. But will I put forth the effort to look Him up?<\/p>\n
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