Daily Thought For February 29 2016
God Working In Ordinary Ways Lectio Luke 4:24–30 Meditatio “[T]here were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elijah the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.” In today’s Gospel we see Jesus rejected by the people of Nazareth, his hometown. Jesus comments, “no prophet is accepted in his own native place.” In the section of the Gospel preceding this passage, Luke tells us that Jesus had begun his ministry in Galilee, and word about him spread rapidly. He returned to Nazareth and spoke in the synagogue, amazing his neighbors by his words. They found him too much for them, and sarcastically said, “Isn’t this the son of Joseph?” They could have added, “We saw him grow up. We know his family and where he comes from. Where does he come off preaching to us?” They expected that if God were to speak to them, it would be in some extraordinary way. Jesus was just too ordinary. Jesus reminded them about the story of Naaman the Syrian, who was cured