Mark 6:5 And he could do no mighty work there, except
that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
I think this must be one of the saddest verses in the
Bible. There is sadness in it from just
about every angle from which I approach it.
Jesus, the Son of God, capable of doing anything was unable to do His mighty acts in that town because of
their unbelief. Unable to do them. He was
not able to do anything exceptional because of their unwillingness to believe
that the person they had known for 30 years was anything more than an ordinary
person. And to heal the sick was a
miracle but the verse implies He could have and would have done even more
miraculous things except for the persistent unbelief. One has to wonder what those unbelievers in
Jesus’ hometown missed because of their unbelief. It makes me stop and wonder if I have ever
kept God from working in my own life or family because I was not open to His
doing so. I pray that will never be the
case.
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