As excited as I am to finally be reading some of what Jesus actually did, I'm afraid the message I find will be difficult to receive.
Jesus' first preaching begins with a reading and interpretation from Isaiah. Much of this message resounds with me,
"..to announce good news to the poor, to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send off the oppressed with liberty..." (Luke 4:18)
Jesus claims he fulfills this scripture. The scene quickly turns bitter and the people in the synagogue drive him out of town.
I can easily support that scripture, that Jesus came for the outcasts. What is uneasy and frightening to me, even though Jesus is for every nation, Israel will reject him. Israel, his home country, rejects him because Jesus' mission extends outside of Israel. How can a mission be so large that people turn against Jesus? It is Israel's response that shakes me as I think of myself as a modern-day Israel.
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