Mark 6:1-6
Jesus in His Hometown of Nazareth
1 Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. 2 When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed.
“Where did this man get these things?” they asked. “What’s this wisdom that has been given him? What are these remarkable miracles he is performing? 3 Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home.” 5 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.6 He was amazed at their lack of faith.
We need faith to believe in God...When Jesus arrived in Nazareth, He could do very few miracles...The people of His own hometown, even though they once had been near to Him, they could not see who He was...And many of them knew Him and had seen Him grow up with their own eyes...But they had little of no faith in Him...Seeking and looking for God is something people of faith do...Some people find God in everything, while others find Him in nothing...When we seek God we have the belief that He exists or might exist...If we have no faith at all that He exists, finding Him will be difficult...
When ask about what he thought about the Russians saying they did not find God in outer space in the 1950's, when they were orbiting the earth, Lewis said this:
“Looking for God — or Heaven — by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare’s plays in the hope you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places...Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play...But he is never present in the same way as Falstaff or Lady Macbeth, nor is he diffused through the play like a gas...“If there were an idiot who thought plays exist on their own, without an author, our belief in Shakespeare would not be much affected by his saying, quite truly, that he had studied all the plays and never found Shakespeare in them...“To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere...Those who do not find him on earth are unlikely to find him in space...(Hang it all, we’re in space already; every year we go a huge circular tour in space.)...But send up a saint in a spaceship and he’ll find God in space as he found God on earth...Much depends on the seeing eye.”...