Responses to God's Faithfulness
God is Faithful
Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5)
Blessed for Faithfulness
Luke 4:24-30 New International Version
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.
For Reflection
Fresh from a preaching and healing campaign in Galilee, Jesus returned to Nazareth. His celebrity preceded him, and he was asked to teach. Some were amazed, and their faith strengthened by his preaching. Others were aghast at what they considered blasphemy. This mixed review foreshadows much of the remainder of Jesus' relationship to the Jewish religious leaders.
Pray
Pray so that your ears will hear the truths in Jesus' teaching. Pray so that you may see the wisdom in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
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