"Isn't this the carpenter?" (Mark 6:3)
This question is asked by the people in Nazareth, Jesus' home town. The people that he grew up among did not value Jesus like others did. They still viewed him as his dad's carpentry apprentice. He wasn't more than the local wood smith. They were trying to put Jesus in a box. They were trying to contain him in the image that had of him. It was like they felt as though they knew him so well that they didn't actually know him at all.
We can run into the same trap. There are times that we put Jesus in a box. We want to know that God will behave a certain way in the world . . . the way we want and expect. We don't want to allow Jesus out of the box we set for him. We think we know Jesus so well that we can anticipate God's work in the world. We run the risk of not being aware of God's creativity, spontaneity and God's ever developing and changing call in our own lives.
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