The Gospel according to John, chapter 1, verse 11:
'He came unto his own and his own received him not.'
This must be one of the saddest verses in the Bible.
Perhaps many of us feel excluded at times from those to whom we feel we belong, chiefly family, but also friends and colleagues and associates, exiled and rejected for who knows what reason.
Here, in this verse, we see the Lord not being recognised by the world he created. Blinded by self, sinful mankind could not see God in his own creation. Engrossed by our petty concerns people simply seek the aid of the nearest idol, some Saint Anthony, or some State Agency, or some Ideology 'ism' to help us through the day.
In some ways things have not changed much since Jesus walked the earth. As society collapses and service and sacrificial love become obsolete, and humanity thinks only of gratification and self righteousness, all around us we hear atheists prattling on in their stupidity and immaturity, peddling heir evil, rejecting the Lord, blinded by self and hate.
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