Episode 300 - Why is it that we close off the doors to miracles ready to happen?

The story of Naaman, a Syrian army commander who has leprosy and goes to Elisha to be cured, shows us how we can close our heart to miracles right at the moment when they’re about to happen. When we let pride and anger take over we close off. In the story of the Gospel of Luke, we find Jesus traveling to Nazareth and speaking in the synagogue about this very story. He says that a prophet is not welcome in his native city. This angers the people that he grew up with to the point that they want to throw him off a cliff