Lk 4:24-30
Jesus Is Rejected
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.
Can we imagine how Jesus felt when his hometown rejected him and almost killed him? These are the people who knew him as a little boy and later as a carpenter. Perhaps he even did work for them. A tough truth but one that gives us the moxie to keep at the task of living and spreading the faith to our own families and neighbors despite their doubts and maybe even their rejection. May we find strength to carry out our mission as we meditate on this horrific scene.
Bro Rene
Dear Jesus, help me remain faithful to my mission of living and spreading the Gospel, even when I face opposition and rejections as you did. Amen.
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