Contempt of the Familiar

When the people of Nazareth heard Jesus speak at the Synagogue, they were amazed. At first they approved of His wisdom, but then they started asking questions about His person.
Surely this is just the son of a carpenter, how can he speak with such wisdom, how can he be the man who has performed miracles if he is just an ordinary person from this town? How can he claim that he has the Spirit of God upon Him and that He can give sight to the blind, heal the sick, free those possessed by evil spirits and bring forth the Grace of God upon us?
Jesus replied to them that no man is a prophet in his own land; that God preferred to bring healing to the pagans in the past instead of granting his favor to his chosen people. The reason is that they took the Kingdom of Heaven for granted and neglected the commandments of God.
After that, they decided to get rid of Jesus, although I knew their plans and escaped from the menacing crowd.
In baptism, we are anointed with the Spirit of God and we become sons and daughters of the Most High. How come we don’t enjoy the privileges and gifts of the rightful inheritance that is ours? The reason is our lack of faith.
Ah, if we only gave credit to God, if we acknowledged with appropriate reverence the gift that God has given us. You are temples of the Holy Spirit, God is with us, the Lord is One with us, His Spirit moves us to come to him and to know him, love him and serve him, to become One with him.
Stop underestimating yourselves, stop denying the power of the Spirit of God within you, stop alienating yourselves from God through sinfulness and lack of faith. Come closer, enter the temple of the Presence of God within you, accept that God has come to save you, that his flesh and blood is a part of you now and that you belong to Him.
I am calling everyone to accept my Holy Spirit as the power that will act in you, think in you and will in you. Surrender your lives to the action of God who wants to make you saints. Repent of your sins and forget who you are now, accept what I can make of you through my mercy, and you will be transformed. I accept you as you are; I desire your sanctification in the power of my burning Love.

Source:
http://www.theworkofgod.org/devotns/euchrist/HolyMass/gospels.asp?key=46