Luke 4: 24-30
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[a] 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.
We have not been challenged by opponents as Jesus was, but sometimes we let ourselves be intimidated by others for sticking to our guns regarding church teaching, or even our "strict" Lenten observances. No doubt, Jesus would have liked a better reception of his teachings, and we would like to be able to live our faith to the fullest, but the adage is true, "A prophet is not welcome in his hometown." May we simply do the best we can and pray for those who oppose us.
Bro. Rene
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