"Can anything good come from there?"
John 1:46
Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathaniel asked. "Come and see," said Philip.
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Nazareth was an obscure town never mentioned in the OT. It had also become a place of barracks from Roman troops who brought their foreign gods with them, as well as their sins and oppression of the Jews. These factors made it seem improbable that Nazareth could be the hometown of the Messiah. (source: QUEST STUDY BIBLE)
"Can anything good come from there?"
As we received Jesus in our life, we are changing. The Spirit of the Lord changes us. Whenever we are sent to a place to preach the word of the Lord, the truth about God, some people will be skeptical about "Is there anything good in this person?" People may even check our background. Where we have come from, who we were before, what is our status, and question about all other things about us and have their basis there. Yes, it may seems that there is no good from us, but there is goodness from the Lord---who changes us into a person worth of anything which is good.
Wherever you have come from, or whatever is your past life and practices, whoever you were before, is irrelevant from who you are today and what you do for the Lord as you live in service in Him. There is goodness in us because we have the Spirit of the Lord dwelling inside of us. The Lord said in His word, "behold, I am making all things new." It is as if He is telling us, "Take heart, I can change all of my creation into something which is good, pleasing and perfect."
Is there anything good from where we have come from? Is there anything good from what family we have belonged? You may have come from a family which is cursed with poverty, or mental illness, or of being widowed, or of being a slave, or of murderers, or loneliness, or of broken family, or of sickness and diseases, and the like. If so, is it really, nothing good will come from there? Behold, God is a God and Mighty beyond compare! He has the power to break all curses we inherit from our ancestors. We came from a family line which is sinful in nature (from Adam and Eve), yet the Lord who cares for us and is so much loves us sent Jesus to break every curses that this world has. There is hope in Jesus! There is hope to become better and best of what we can become regardless of where we have come from. Regardless of our family line's background.
"There is an exception from every rule," now be that exception from your family. Break the curse, make it stop from you and the generation which will come next to you will be free of those curses which is inherited because you have decided to be changed and become something good out of the place where it seems nothing good will come out.
Why was God, let Jesus come from Nazareth?
It is to let people know that the Lord is fair, and care greatly for his flocks. It is to let people see how the power of the Lord works. It is to let people know that Jesus can relate to us---human being, what we have experiencing here on earth.
"God chose the lowly things in this world and the despise things---and the things that are not---to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. (1 Corinthians 1:28-29)