1 CorinthiansChapter 2
1 When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.
2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,
4 and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, 3 but with a demonstration of spirit and power,
5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

PsalmsChapter 119
97 How I love your teaching, Lord! I study it all day long.
98 Your command makes me wiser than my foes, for it is always with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, because I ponder your decrees.
100 I have more insight than my elders, because I observe your precepts.
101 I keep my steps from every evil path, that I may obey your word.
102 From your edicts I do not turn, for you have taught them to me.

LukeChapter 4
16 He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom 2 into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read
17 and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,
19 and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
20 Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
21 He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."
22 And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They also asked, "Isn't this the son of Joseph?"
23 He said to them, "Surely you will quote me this proverb, 'Physician, cure yourself,' and say, 'Do here in your native place the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.'"
24 And he said, "Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.
25 Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe famine spread over the entire land.
26 It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
27 Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."
28 When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury.
29 They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong.
30 But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

I am a little confused. The first reading says I don't come to persuade you with words but by actions and then Jesus reads the words but they want Him to use actions to prove Himself and He doesn't. When I read the first reading I was thinking about being involved in a retreat and how hard it is to leave it all in God's hand. I know I probable talk a lot about retreats. Not really sure why. I guess leaving all of our life in God's hand is hard. I guess I find it easy to relate because on a retreat we are trying to spread Jesus and it seems by doing less thinking on the retreat, more is accomplished. And by doing less I mean by letting God do more.
But what got me really thinking is the Gospel. What if, and I don't believe this for a second, but what if David Kuresh, and I don't think I spelled that right, was who he said he was. And I don't know exactly who he said he was, but some kind of prophet. Let's take it further. What if he said he was Jesus coming back. None of us believe him, of cource, and at Waco we attack and kill him and his followers. But Jesus tells us that the only place He is not accepted is His home. Would we believe Jesus if He did come back. I think the first thing I would say is, "If you are Jesus then answer some questions or heal somebody." How would you know otherwise. Because He said He was. Obviously that isn't enough for us or else we would believe anyone that said they were Jesus. If Jesus wouldn't do signs to prove He was who He said He was, what made people believe. Obviously many didn't because they killed Him, but now we all say we believe. What would He do to reveal Him self in a second coming, if there was anything like that. It makes me wonder where I would fit in if I had been alive 2000 years ago.