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Speed Bumps
Mark 6
Speed bumps are useful in that they remind drivers to slow down and to pay attention to their surroundings. If the drivers traveling on the roadways where speed bumps are do not adhere or respect the speed bumps, they will damage their automobiles severely.
Responsible people are apt to remember where the potholes and speed bumps are located. Were we to recall, Jesus is the oldest of Mary and Joseph’s children. Thus Jesus’ younger years were spent supporting his mother and siblings, due to the untimely death of Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father. Whatever may have happened during those years must have been preparation for what was to come.
Life is full of speed bumps of one kind or another. The Vignette or literary composition embellishing the enchanting life of Jesus encompass a continuous flurry of activity as He moves from one event to the next. The activity is interrupted only when Jesus by intention desires to be alone to reflect and to commune with God, His heavenly Father. Up until this point, all has gone well. Not even Jesus was exempt or excused from disappointing experiences.
Mark’s accounting tells us that Jesus returns home to his hometown of Nazareth where He is met with amazement, resentment, and open hostility. Jesus has the twelve disciples with Him. Jesus’ return home was not a social visit. In fact He came as a rabbi, a teacher, with His students in tow.
He went to the synagogue, as an itinerant rabbi might do, and began to teach. Mark gives us the report that those who heard him were astonished at what he had to say. But, like a typical hometown critic, they began with the usual disqualifying remarks:
Where did this man learn all this?
What is this wisdom?
What awesome deeds of power are done by His hands?
Hey, we’ve known this fellow since he was a kid.
We know his mama, and his brothers and sisters.
He is just a carpenter.
He is not better than we are.
Where does he come off talking like that to us?
We know Him!
What did Jesus say that provoked His old friends to become so angry? Luke, another reporter reported that when Jesus the rabbi came to the synagogue, He was given the scroll of Isaiah, which he unrolled to the place where it read: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim and release the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Isaiah 61:1-2)
The congregants were not only amazed, but were also enraged. They ran Jesus out of town and took Him to the top of the hill on which the town was built and would have hurled Him off the cliff, “but he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.” (Luke 4:16-29). For our Lord this even was like crossing a speed bump. Jesus’ disciples were greatly disturbed, but Jesus was still up beat and positive. He was not undone, but called the twelve to formation and charged them with their first orders. Up until this time, the twelve had been mere observers. Now Jesus is sending or commissioning them, but first He gave them power over unclean spirits, and authority to heal.
The speed bumps or the painful rejection they had witnessed was Jesus’ way of showing His students just what they too would need to be His apostles. Jesus gave them power and authority. When we think pensively, “I do not have the ability to do that,” remember, what God calls us to do, what God empowers us to do.
Lets trust God; Jesus sent them with out money, food, or even a change of clothing. Someone said Jesus promised three things to those who follow Him: absurdly happy, entirely fearless, and always in trouble.
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