In reading Mark 5 there's the account of a man possessed - clearly possessed, not mentally ill - healed by Christ (a). The demons within him identified themselves to Christ who had them posses instead a large heard of pigs who all jumped off a cliff in suicide much to the surprise and dismay to the swine herders. To see a once possessed man visibly free and well was acknowledged as a miracle within the community that knew him but the work of such a miracle frightened the folks of Gerasenes and "..the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region".
I get it.
The passage reminded me of a time in my life when a miracle did take place. One of the worlds best best neurosurgeons allowed as to how he had no explanation for how my eldest son recovered from the devastating wounds he received in Afghanistan. The feeling of Gods presence and work was palpable. It was also terrifying, and, in a few instances, a bit like the sense one gets opening an oven set at 450.
An extraordinary experience.
So often we are willfully unaware of the wonders about us or fail to appreciate what God has provided because the enemy and his minions are trying so hard to conceal or disguise it.
All this is not by accident. (Do your own homework, this might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noj4phMT9OE )
And, it is neither pointless or eternal.
'Selah' folks. I recommend y'alls take just a moment today and consider.
And, while reflecting, remember the words of one sage - "We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away." (b)
a. Seems to me the agency of Satan on earth was greater before ascension and will be no less again 'for a little season".
b. "The Wheel of Fire" J. Michael Straczynski
