hometown hero?

Matthew 13:53-58

Jesus finishes all these folksy yet inspiring parables about the kingdom and then he goes home. The reaction of his neighbours is a bit puzzling: they are excited by his power to perform miracles and yet suspicious because they know his roots. There is no family history of performing miracles. In fact, Joseph was a carpenter - he wasn't even a teacher or expert of the law. I wonder if the people were subtly reminding Jesus that he was an "illigitemate child" as in, "Isn't this Joseph's son? Or at least, don't we all pretend that this is Joseph's son?"
Whatever the case, the people take offense that Jesus, an illigitemate son of the village, would dare to speak and act with such authourity when they know where he came from and who his family is. The sense of the passage is, "Who does he think he is?"
The result is that Jesus doesn't peform many miracles in their town because of their lack of faith. This is the phrase that hits me the hardest. I wonder what miracles Jesus would have performed if I had more faith. I wonder if I am a bottle neck in the work of God in my life and my ministry. I wonder if I limit the work of Jesus because I know who he is, how he would act and what he would say. I make Jesus according to my image and don't allow him the freedom to act as he really would and, in so doing, miss out on his blessing. Don't get me wrong. I know that God is sovreign and it is hard for me to think of the work of Jesus as being limited by my faith. I know that God is bigger than that. However, there is a cause/effect in this verse: because of their lack of faith - because they thought they had Jesus figured out, Jesus did not do many miracles there. I often have to pray the prayer of the father in Mark 9 "Lord, I believe. Help me overcome my unbelief!"