Father Snort

Brad Sullivan Proper 9, Year B July 5, 2015 Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX 2 Corinthians 12:2-10 Mark 6:1-13 Did you notice that Jesus didn’t send out his disciples to preach and to heal people until the disciples had seen Jesus rejected in Nazareth? I wonder if they needed to see that, to know they might be rejected before they were sent out. Maybe they needed to be kept from being too elated, as Paul wrote about himself. Paul wrote that he was made weak and tormented by a messenger of Satan, and that he prayed to God for it to leave him. In response, God said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” Not exactly the response Paul was looking for, but he understood. We can get too puffed up, too strong on our own, and then we tend to give too much glory to ourselves. Even when our words say otherwise, pride ends up telling us that we are great. Feeling self-sufficient can leave us isolate