Saying yes to Nazareth

He chose Nazareth. “Could anything good come out of Nazareth?” He would forever answer that question. Why would he choose a place that was as poor and forgotten as this town? He would receive no recognition for his accomplishments. He would not be noticed at all. Day after day he would say yes to living in Nazareth; day after day he would say yes to the Father. It was the thirty years of saying yes in Nazareth that prepared in him to say yes in Gethsemane.
Many people want to say yes to the Lord in the place of martyrdom, but do not want to say yes to the Lord in the mundane things of life. They aren’t willing to say yes to living where the Lord has called them to live, or working the job they are called to work and they expect themselves to say yes in the bigger things or even be asked to do the bigger things.
Jesus said yes to being hidden, submitting the law of the Pharisees he would later rebuke, working as a carpenter in small town that needed little business, learning the law that he had written, and submitting to the parents that he had chosen. It was saying yes 10,000 times when no one was watching that prepared his heart to say yes when the salvation of humanity was hanging in the balance. If you’ll say yes to Nazareth, you’ll yes in Gethsemane