He came to his own people and his own people did not accept him. But if we think that, we continue in our blindness, for they were us. They represented us, that in each of us that rejects and even crucifies anyone or any teaching that makes us feel we must give up our comforts, our supposed security, a Gospel that saves yet asks us to trust and to give up our lives to save them. A Gospel that tells us to put its priorities first, not our own, to put our own priorities and our own agenda last. It is powerfully hard to accept truly accept Christ in our hearts, to do more than words and see all those around us as God's precious ones, to treat them like God's precious ones, especially if they get in the way of our agenda and priorities.
Faith is a gift.
We must only not reject it. God is always working in us to open ourselves to God. When we allow it, God works faith in us and through us. And then God gives us power, says the text, to become children of God, connected to God by a spiritual genetic that is more real than DNA genetics. We are connected to God and through that connection we know there is life beyond life, there is power in weakness, there is glory in reaching out to the powerless and the poor and the helpless.