p.donny wa preachin in luke yesterday and my eyes fell on an old, faithful, much read passage but i saw it diff and i thought i would share (this is my thoughts, not p.doony's :)

When he (jesus) came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.

The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,
that the blind will see,
that the oppressed will be set free,
and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come.[a]”

He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently. Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”

i was thinking about it this am (as i mopped my floors ha!)

jesus, all grown up goes home to is home town, where everyone knew him and watched him grow up, worked with him, played some soccer, made a fort or two, had some ice cream, competed with him in school...esp bible 101...etc...

so he's home, does his typical sunday thing, goes to church and he gets the sacred scriptures, the scrolls (think Canadian Stanley cup) and reads it out loud

then he simply, rolls it back up, gives it back and declares "i am this guy!" i wonder who believed him right away, no questions asked. was it bec they just trusted him?

or bec they "knew" and were stuffed with the holy spirit

man, i must take my spiritual knowing up a notch. i would not want to miss anything....

and that's my babble for today!

happy monday everyone!

Posted by mel at 4:02 PM