FAITH CAPSULE: Let Jesus know that you value Him today by living for His glory.

Job2, Mark 6:1-6

God gave testimony about Job when Satan approached God for Job’s life, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still he holds fast to his integrity…” (Job 2:3) Despite God’s testimony, Job’s wife could not spare Job when she reacted to Job’s adversity by stating, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die’”. (Job 2:9) A man identified by God as upright, blameless and none like him on the earth, does not deserve such approach from any man not to talk of his wife. Evidently, the wife failed to place value on God’s hand upon Job; she could not see who he was in the hand of God. Like Job, Jesus must have experienced a challenge which prompted Him to respond to the people when He said to the people, “A Prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.’” (Mark 6:4) Jesus, despite all His miracles on every ground which He stepped on, despite having crowds and disciples who were following Him, He was rejected at His own city of Nazareth. The people questioned the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand. His people failed to see who He was but only saw Him as the son of a carpenter; the son of Joseph and Mary. Only God knows all that was thrown at Him in words which were not documented. It must have been so much and the Bible testifies that, “… He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.”(Mark 6:5)  If there was to be a place for Him in regard to greater work being manifested, it should have been at His home and among His people. Have you been encountering people who are putting you down and not place value on how God is using you to touch lives? Are you being rewarded in any discouraging way?

Can your situation be as bad like that of Job? Today, be encouraged in the Lord knowing fully well that you know your God and your God knows you. It hurts to be rejected. Think of it, is there any way your lifestyle, the life you live in the absence of fellow believers is rejecting Christ? Doing things that cannot be approved or done in the midst of your fellow brethren is an indication that you are also rejecting Jesus by not placing value on Him just as you have been rejected. The people of Nazareth failed to value the anointing upon the life of the Anointed One (Jesus). Let Jesus know that you value Him today by living for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live for His glory.