The familiar often blinds us to the profound. God often chooses to work in our lives through the most ordinary of instruments. However, we tend to think that if God is going to do something in our world, He will use spectacular means to accomplish it.
That is why prophets are not without honor except from their hometown. We cannot imagine that God would do a great work through someone we went to school with! Our ordinary town or church seems an unlikely place for God to do a spectacular work. So, we don’t anticipate it or watch for it.
The Son of God returned to the region where He had grown up. What a privilege it was for those ordinary townspeople to have the Son of God spend time in their midst! The problem was that they knew Him. Though Jesus had always been an outstanding young man, no one could imagine Him being the actual Messiah. If Jesus had been born in Rome or Greece, or Babylon, then perhaps He might have generated more interest. But since these people knew Him as a child, they missed the profound reality that God Himself was walking among them.
Could it be that you are missing the divine activity around you because it seems too familiar?