If you ever feel like the world’s against you, you’re in good company. There were a whole list of examples when Jesus had everyone against him. In this passage we see it again. In the passage Jesus says a line that would become famous: A prophet is without honor. Then the text said that Jesus could not do miracles while he was in his hometowm. The text clearly connects that with the unbelief demonstrated by the people there.
In what way does our faith interfere with the work of God. I think greatly. While God doesn’t require perfect belief in him before he can work, we do need enough faith to step out and take risks. Sometimes the most important risk we can take is the risk to believe God for the impossible.
Those people in Jesus’ hometown were to used to Jesus to expect the impossible from him. Sometimes I wonder if we’re to used to him to expect the impossible. We’ve known him for too long to think he could do anything out of the ordinary. Sometimes the first step toward a miracle is to look at him again for the first time, to see something new in him, then step out in faith and believe in the one you’ve seen through new eyes.
