In last Sunday’s gospel, Luke recounts the story of Jesus escaping those who were furious enough with him to want to throw him headlong off the brow of a hill.  Luke simply states: “But Jesus passed through the midst of them and went away (Lk 4.30)”.  An astonishing thing.  Amy Carmichael applies this verse to our own lives:

Our new month will bring us joys, for the Lord of joy is with us; it will also bring us sorrows, for sorrows are part of life.  It may bring things which would “throw us down” if they could.  But they need not ever do that, for it is possible for us to do just what our Master did when, passing through the midst of them, He went His way.
As, by His grace, we go on in quietness, we shall find those words we know so well come true: “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest” (Ex 33.14).  (Edges of His Ways, p. 18)