Luke 4:23-27

Jesus said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum, do here in your hometown too.’” And he added, “I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown. But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land. Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

Jesus speaks these words at the synagogue in Nazareth, after casting out the unclean spirit in Capernaum. Jesus perfectly knows the hearts and minds of those He is speaking with. Miracles, signs, and wonders are the prerogative of God. We are to seek God, pray to God, yet we must understand and trust His authority and decisions about our circumstances. He is God whatever the outcome of our difficult situations in life. In Christ we are promised everlasting eternal life, and we look forward to that and live by faith, each day riddled with grace. Jesus never compromised with the truth.