Jesus made His home in Capernaum. It was where He lived, taught, healed — a center of His ministry and the site of countless miracles. And yet, it became a place of indifference. Those closest to Him, like the people of Nazareth, did not believe. Today we reflect on the contrast between proximity and faith — between those who saw and turned away, and a Roman outsider whose belief astonished Christ. We ask what it means to live close to the holy and not be changed. Have we grown so familiar? We should be in awe.

Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard? That the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not neither is weary.

He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might, he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.