Do I Accept Jesus?

 Luke 4: 24-30

No prophet is accepted in his hometown

²⁴ “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. ²⁵ I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. ²⁶ Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon. ²⁷ And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

²⁸ All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. ²⁹ They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. ³⁰ But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.

Again, Jesus faces "a tough audience," but he is in good company: Elijah and Elisha faced unbelievers no matter what wonders they worked.  Where do I stand at this point in Lent, in this point in my life in my faith journey with Jesus?  Despite all the signs and wonders I have seen in my own life, do I still fear that I am alone and unable to bear the stresses and demands imposed on me by others, or even my own expectations of myself?  Why do l continue to live with that queezie feeling in my stomach  when I know God is with me and will give me strength to bear with every challenge?  Open my eyes, Lord, stir up my faith and confidence that I may not let FEAR get the best of me!

Bro. Rene