Speak the Word

 

In Luke 4:14-30 we read about Jesus returning to His home town of Nazareth.  He had just begun His ministry after being tempted in the wilderness for 40 days.  He returns to Galilee in the power of the Spirit.  Jesus went to the synagogue on the Sabbath and read from the scroll of Isaiah.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering if sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

The people in the synagogue were impressed by Jesus command of the scriptures and marveled at his words.  They requested a display of the miracles they heard about in Capernaum but Jesus does not respond to them as they expect.  Instead, He begins to speak the truth about the present state of things in the Israel and the crowd was enraged and tried to throw Jesus off the cliff. 

What happens when the truth is not what we expect?  What happens when we encounter Jesus and He speaks to us the truth of His word.  Are we offended?  Do we back away?  Are we truly listening?

Will we let His word penetrate our hardened hearts and rid our souls of our false images of Him? 

This song “Speak the Word” is written with that perspective.   Let us seek to see Jesus as He truly is and allow that truth to set us free.

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