Mark 6:1-6a
Read Mark 6:1-6a
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Jesus is in a hard place here, He is back at His roots so to say. The place where young Jesus had grew up and He was remembered. He goes to church and teaches from Isaiah 61 and then tells the people He is the fulfillment of that passage. The people say who does this guy think; He is to teach and say these things. We knew Him when He was a little boy running around playing with the other kids. I remember when I, as a man started to witness to my lost father, who was in his sixty’s at the time. Over the years he had heard a lot of people who he thought knew the Bible say things about the Bible and God that just was not true. Some of them thought that they were helping him but they really had confused him about a lot of things. Sometimes we would get pretty heated as I would try to show him the truth and he would not want to believe me. One day as we talked he said why are you right an everyone I’ve ever known all my life is wrong? I said, I can show you what I’m saying in the Bible. Dad here it is in the Bible, now show me in the Bible were your believe is. He saw me as his little boy and it was hard for him to understand that I may have more understanding of spiritual things than him and other adults who he had known. That helped that day to understand where he was, and helped him to see the truth. You may be growing in your relationship with God faster or more than family and friends. That is a hard place to be, the truth is still the truth, and in Jesus case they tried to push Him over a cliff. Your family and friends know you and your short comings and may try to take you down to their level. Jesus pushed through the crowd, and so must we. We must continue to grow in Christ and not allow others to push us over the spiritual cliff and down to their level.
Family and friends know the real person we are or who we may have been. They are the hardest people we come into contact with to witness to or to give spiritual help. I know it is hard but today reach out and witness to lost family and friends.
