Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Mark chapter 6 verses 1 through
He left that place and came to his home town, and his disciples followed him. 2On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, ‘Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! 3Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?’ And they took offense at him. 4Then Jesus said to them, ‘Prophets are not without honour, except in their home town, and among their own kin, and in their own house.’ 5And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. 6And he was amazed at their unbelief.
We must all learn to hear this word as Gospel: He could do no deed of power among his own kin and his own house.
It is Gospel because it frees us of all our burdens to convince, change, and set straight those whom we love.
There are some places that won’t change. They are some people who aren’t willing to change. Sometimes — oftentimes — it’s our own place and our own people.
Jesus was the Savior of the world. Yet, when it came to his own family and neighbors he didn’t have a savior complex. And we shouldn’t either.
Hear it again. And hear it as Gospel. Hear and let it free you of the burden to save and set right everyone who is close to you, whom you love:
“He could not do any deed of power there.”
All he could do, the Scripture says, was love, and extend compassion, and reach out his human hand to heal.
That was all.
And maybe it was enough.
Maybe it was everything.
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