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Busy and Happy Days at Capernaum
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supporters of the new kingdom. With surprise they heard Christ’s
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words, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also;
for that is why I came out.”
Mark 1:38
, RSV. Jesus was not satisfied
to attract attention to Himself as a wonder worker or healer. While
the people were eager to believe that He had come as a king, to
establish an earthly reign, He desired to turn their minds away from
the earthly to the spiritual.
And the wonder of the careless crowd jarred upon His spirit. The
homage the world gives to position, or wealth, or talent was foreign
to the Son of man. None of the means men employ to win allegiance
did Jesus use. It had been prophesied of Him, “He will not cry or
lift up His voice, or make it heard in the street; ... He will faithfully
bring forth justice.”
Isaiah 42:2, 3
, RSV.
In the life of Jesus, no noisy disputation, no ostentatious worship,
no act to gain applause was ever witnessed. Christ was hid in God,
and God was revealed in the character of His Son.
The Sun of Righteousness did not burst upon the world in splen-
dor, to dazzle the senses with His glory. Quietly and gently the
daylight dispels the darkness and wakes the world to life. So did the
Sun of Righteousness arise, “with healing in His wings.”
Malachi
4:2
.
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