June 23rd

June 23rd -- Luke 4:16-30 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204:16-30&version=NLT)

Go ahead and read the passage, please!

Imagine growing up and ending up in a job that required you to travel. You travel lots of different places marketing a product. Finally, though, you're sent back to your home, where you're trying to market this product to people who watched you grow up. Imagine if all these people, once friends and neighbors, suddenly rejected you, calling you a fraud, or a scammer, or a con-man. You'd be pretty upset, right? Well, think of Jesus. He wasn't conning anyone - he offered salvation and faith. They responded by trying to push him off a cliff. HIS NEIGHBORHOOD TRIED TO PUSH HIM OFF A CLIFF. Okay. Now that we have that established, I'd just like to point out Jesus did NOT have an easy job. He was NOT easily accepted. He was even rejected in his hometown. Yet, he kept going. He brushed off the crowd and carried on. Sometimes, we gotta' be more like that. We often get so caught up trying to please every person all the time that we lose focus of the big picture. We plant the spiritual seeds and God grows them. If we spend all our time, though, on a few people who just won't have any of it, then we're wasting that time that we could spend trying to show the truth to others. We have to realize sometimes it's not our job to witness to that certain person. God places different people in different lives at different times. Just try and plant where He has called you to. He just wants you to do that - shake off the rejection, pick your self back up, and keep trying.
Well that will be all! God bless! Shalom!