Eye's that cannot see, no good works

Mark 6:1-6

       God hates Islam.....Muslims die, God laughs........Repent or perish. All signs carried by followers of the Westboro Baptist Church.  In fact, if the Internet is to believed, some of the Westboro folk are going to Iraq to protest and carry signs there. Good luck with that. These are the the far right polito-religious wingnuts of society. These are people saying they are "Christian" while showing everyone how obvious it is that they are not. It is one the saddest things to see. I'm not even sure if these people are capable of independent thought, so fixated are they on their own narrow minded vision.

         So Jesus goes back to his home town and gets razzed. Isn't this the carpenter? Don't we know this guy?  If they had said 'isn't this the delinquent that broke Mrs. Goldstein's water jug when he was 11?' I would not have been surprised.  They just cannot wrap their minds around what he is saying. We all get caught in that in one way or another I suppose. If you recall the movie Pretty Woman, the Rodeo Drive matrons won't serve Julia Roberts because they have judged she is not the right type.  I think even after Julia stops by later loaded with oodles and oodles of shopping bags , they still have doubts that it was her in the first place.

          The worst thing is people who have ears and won't hear and people with eye's that won't see. Primary on my list might be the Westboro Baptist church or any variety like that. Bryan Fischer, Linda Harvey and a host of others who really seemingly cannot read scripture or understand it but i doesn't stop them from stepping on a soap box. They are so fixated on their own self created agenda of hate and misinformation that they wouldn't recognize love or truth if they saw it. As amazing as it sounds, I don't think Jesus 'could do any act of power' with these people except for a few. Jesus would be amazed at their disbelief. I actually think Jesus would cry.

         I am not throwing down a blanket that says every gay person is decent and moral. Lord knows we can't say that about the straight community. I suppose that 'eyes that cannot see' also occurs within the LGBTQ community as well. So the call is to all. Do not be fixated on your message. Anything in the extreme is not a good thing. Better we should 'focus' on seeing things more broadly and actually listening instead of trying to formulate our responses.

       

      

He left that place and came to his home town, and his disciples followed him. On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, ‘Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?’ And they took offence at him. Then Jesus said to them, ‘Prophets are not without honour, except in their home town, and among their own kin, and in their own house.’ And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them. And he was amazed at their unbelief. 

Then he went about among the villages teaching.