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“Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing” Luke 4:21

Stunned. Absolutely stunned. That would have been the reaction of those who were at the synagogue that day. All that they had been taught on their mother’s knee, learnt in school, and all that was written in the scrolls kept and guarded in the synagogue – and this was actually happening? The young man who preached was well known in the village. The son of Mary and Joseph, the carpenter. No formal training as a Rabbi. And yet he was suggesting that he was the ‘fulfilment of the law.’ Jesus was declaring himself as the much expected and long-awaited Messiah, as described by Isaiah (Is 61:1-2).

The atmosphere would have been electric. How could a humble man make such an

extravagant claim? More importantly, how could they believe him? Of course they couldn’t. So they ran him out of town (v24-30).

Sometimes it is difficult for us to believe who Jesus really is, and how he is present in a world full of conflict, pain and suffering. But he is present, and also in control. Try and find him in your life, your family, your job. You will be surprised where you find him. May God bless you as you search.

RMM