December 1, 2010 – Mark 6 - 6:29

Jesus did not work miracles or great feats were the people had little faith.  Look at our country and how much we are trying to discard Christianity and the teachings of Christ, yet we think our country is invisible and will always be around.  We are expecting a miracle to pull us out of the direction we are heading, yet we have no faith in Christ.  How are things going to change if we only look to ourselves as the only way things are going to change.  Modern secularism feels that humans are self sufficient and destined for godliness on their own.  They do not need some God that people used to rely on.  God is an old fashioned thing that we know better than to believe in.  How is that different than the people in Nazareth that thought they knew better than Christ because He was born of a carpenter and they knew His family.  The world is trying to make God obsolete, something only uneducated people fall back on, something educated people only do in the privacy of their own homes.  They try to explain the problems that occur in scientific or economic ways.  They will not entertain the notion that our nation has turned from God and that may be the cause of our struggles.  They will not entertain the thought that the destruction of any sense of morality has damaged the very foundations of our families and has sent ripples that have destroyed the environment we live in for generations to come.  The world is those people in Nazareth who think they already “know” Christ and don’t feel they need anything more from Him.  Miracles cannot happen in that environment.  This country will not change until we realize the Christ, the son of God is in our midst, and as our faith grows, God’s miracles can increase and pull us out of our tailspin.  Until then, we are looking at more of the same.