Monday 30 August 2021
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. The Lord comes to judge the earth – Ps 95(96):1, 3-5, 11-13. Luke 4:16-30.
No prophet is ever accepted in their own country
Authentic prophets are not elected by the people to fulfil a role determined by them; they are called by God to serve a mission of God’s choosing. As the God-given mission alone determines the role they are to play, they will often find themselves at odds with people’s expectations of them.
The disciples at Emmaus identify Jesus as ‘a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people’ (Luke 24:19). Yet those same people put him to death. How often in the history of the church have we seen prophetic women and men persecuted in their lifetimes and honoured after their deaths.
The words of Moses are relevant today: ‘Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!’ (Numbers 11:29).
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