Monday of the Third Week of Lent
Lk 4:24-30
NO PROPHET IS ACCEPTED IN HIS OWN NATIVE PLACE. We Jesus at the beginning of his ministry. At his return to Nazareth after his baptism and his desert sojourn, he preached in the synagogue where all were amazed by his words. But the realization that he was just one of them and his discourse that no prophet is accepted in his own native place angered his townsfolk so that they wanted to hurl him from the ridge. Because of this rejection, he moved to Capernaum which became the locus of his ministry.
There is a lot of truth in Jesus’ words. In his ministry, Jesus experienced rejection: not only from those who opposed him but from his own kin and those among his inner circle. The Fourth Gospel would say “He came to his own, but his own did not receive him.” We may find ourselves in the same boat—rejected by people close to us because of our convictions that are rooted in Christ’s teachings. In such an experience it is well that we realize that we have become prophets, nay more, we have become like Jesus.
Have I experienced rejection from those people close to me? Do I have the courage to speak the truth even to the point of being rejected?
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