Where are the flying cars ?

Topics: Disappointment

"Where are the flying cars? [pause] They promised us flying cars? It's
the 21st century and they said we would have flying cars!" Have you seen
that commercial? It's about disappointment. I can remember back in the
70's watching the science-fiction TV series Space 1999 and I too thought
by now, the year 2000, that we would at least have flying cars and be
taking vacations on the moon. I'm a little disappointed myself.

Imagine how the folks in Nazareth felt when they heard that an anointed
prophet, maybe even the messiah, was coming to town. They went to
synagogue that morning with great anticipation but they were
disappointed. "Where is this Messiah? They promised us a Messiah? That
man's no messiah,. He's a common carpenter. That's Mary's Son and the
brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. Aren't his sister's still
living right here with us today?"

If I had been there, I too, would have been disappointed. My line of
questioning would have been the same: What gives him the right to stand
up in church and teach us? After all, he's no different than me.

Brett Blair, SermonIllustrations.com, July, 2000 (The commercial to
which I refer is a advertisement in the US and starts Avery Brooks. It
is advertising a computer technology firm).