It’s not enough to have loved someone in the past, or to know them based on the categories they belong to. True love never ends, which means that it must always change and grow. If you love someone, you must be willing to love them as they change, or as your knowledge changes. The people from Jesus’ hometown made this big mistake: because they felt so familiar with Jesus, and so comfortable with their old assumptions about him, they were unable and unwilling to see him as he was. Like them, we can have a sweet, personal Jesus who’s comfortable and familiar to us. Unlike them, we should learn to lay aside our assumptions about Jesus and turn toward him again and again, eager to see him as he is. We must not worship a hometown Jesus of our theological creation; we must turn to worship the living, surprising God,
Quo vadis, Andrei Mironov, artmiro.ru. Creative Commons License.