He has Anointed Me

Luke 4:18-19 says, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
So, what's the context of this passage. Well, earlier in chapter four, Jesus was fasting and then was tempted by the devil. By verse fifteen, he starts preaching and teaching. It even says he is being glorified by all. His ministry was very successful in Galilee and throughout the surrounding countries. Then He came to Nazareth where He started preaching in the synagogue.
Imagine this; you're sitting down in church after a fantastic worship time, and the preacher begins his message. All of the sudden, a stranger gets up and starts reading this passage in the Bible, claiming he has been anointed to preach, heal, proclaim liberty & recovery, and to set people free. If you didn't think that was heresy, I'm sure your educated pastor, assuming he has been to seminary, would probably be worried.
If the analogy isn't completely parallel, this is; that what Jesus said in the synagogue seemed very heretical. He goes on to say that we had read was being fulfilled today before their eyes (Verse 21). People are confused, and question His lineage in order to prove that He is just a normal man like everyone else.
I don't have enough reason and wisdom to completely understand this passage and the rest of it as well, but I do know that Jesus did exactly what He was told to do. How exciting would it be to go back to this moment and completely understand what was going on? To watch their faces and know that the Son of God is before their eyes. It had been prophesied that a Savoir would come, and now, here He is. Yet, we don't see girls scream the way they do for popular artists, we don't see enough men and women wanting to be just like He is, in every form and fashion. We see this even when He rides in to Jerusalem on a donkey.
I wonder how many times God has shown up in my life, and I have missed it. Where God comes up and says, "Watch me, Rob! Here I am!" and I am still in denial about the fact that he helps me through life. I think it's insane how we have the complete record of God and His deeds through the Bible, yet we don't know what He looks like. When He shows Himself just a glimpse of who He is, we are confused and jus walked past it.
I encourage you, as I do the same, to be aware of Christ and His works. I think if we notice God in our everyday lives, we will be reminded about how great He is, and how incapable we are to full comprehend His love and affection for us, His children. We have a good God, but do we know Him the way He knows us?
Someone once put it this way, "God explains that we are married to Him, showing an unbreakable bond between us. He has left to make a place for us, but when He comes back, will we know Him? When He takes us in His arms, will we recognize His face? When He comes back, I want to know my groom." - Forsake All