Jennifer Manis is the Lutheran Campus Minister at NCSU. She prepared today's offering:
Read Luke 4:16-30
God and I have been wrestling of late. Perhaps, you know what’s that like. Those moments in life when you are in fairly frequent dialogue with the Holy One, seeking an answer to a particular question - What do I do after college? Where should I intern? Why does my mom have cancer? - and God’s response seems missing or empty or just nonexistent.
Jesus knows that the people of Nazareth expect him to heal someone, to perform a miracle (v 23). Who doesn’t want a miracle? And who doesn’t know exactly what miracle they’d like God to perform? Sometimes we are so busy looking for and expecting God to respond in a certain way, a way we’ve pre-determined, that we miss God’s presence, that we miss God’s miracles that occur right before our eyes.
The people have drive n Jesus out of town. Can you see them? Grumbling, pushy, a herd of group think gone bad, these people are determined to hurl Jesus off a cliff (v 29). Yet, somehow, he passes through the midst of them and is gone, on his way (v 30). Did they notice? Could they see it? Might the miracle they hoped to see, have blinded them from the miracle that just occurred?
Holy One, open our eyes to see you in the world, the miracle of God with us. Amen.
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