No honor in home town - Luke 3-4

Those who watched Christ grow up were less impressed with Him. Their assumptions about Him wouldn't allow them to think past what they thought to observed what they could readily see. We call those thoughts "assumed constraints". Baby elephants are staked to the groung very early in life. The chain on their legs is fastened securely to a stake driven deep into the ground. As they get older their developed strength would allow them to pull the stake and chain right out of the ground. However, because they "assume" the leg iron is the same strength as when they were in their youth they don't try to pull it out. The "assumed constraint" prevents them from going any where. The same was true of those who thought Jesus was just a carpenter's son. Their assumed constraint wouldn't allow them to believe. We do this all the time when God is trying to work in our lives. He wants us to believe His Word, but God wants us to not believe our assumed constraints and trust Him for great and unexplainable miracles. Don't allow assumed constraints to hold you back believe in a God who can break the chains of your assumptions.