Editorial August 1, 1988 Issue

Be quick to deal with challenges

Ann Kenrick

Christ Jesus dealt with opposition decisively. He did not allow materialistic thought to impede his forward footsteps as he carried the good news of God's presence and love to the people.

Near the beginning of his ministry he went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. There in the synagogue on the Sabbath he read a passage from the book of Isaiah that clearly set forth his God-appointed mission: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."

His own townspeople knew him merely as Joseph's son, and Jesus' words roused such anger in them that they would have thrown him down the steep hill on which their city was built, to be rid of him. But the gospel narrative tells us he passed through the crowd unharmed and "went his way."^{See Luke 4:18, 19, 28-30.}

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