Your Greatest Work May Be Valued More In A Foreign Place

Your Greatest Work May Be Valued More In A Foreign Place Although what you do may not be accepted by your closest friends or family, don’t stop trying to do what is good. Do what you can for those who will accept your charity, sympathy, goodwill and prayers. When it’s only those who are left that reject you, pick up and move on. Jesus was only able to help a few in his home town. He went where he was needed and where his work through the grace of God would be accepted. Pass through the midst of those who reject you. Perhaps you may be of greater value in a place where no one knows you. Your Greatest Work May Be Valued More In A Foreign Place. Luke 4:24-30 And he said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet's hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian." When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.