RE Verse reading–Mark 6:1-6 (day three)
The fact that we read “He was amazed at their lack of faith” tells us that this was something Jesus did not expect. That doesn’t make the Savior less divine. It does make him human. In Jesus we see how a human being at his best operates in the face of unexpected turns. Jesus was amazed, and that amazement began to shape the way he engaged people. It informed his refusal to force his thinking upon people when they clearly did not want it: Witness his “Shake the dust off” instruction to his disciples later. It drove him to look for open doors to the gospel—even when those doors led to places and people outside Jewish ethnic zones. May we become as amazed and as responsive.
