A Man and His Healer

Mark 5:1-20

~This is a pheonomal story it is about how a demon possed man gets healed how Jesus just restored his life and so forth so that is basically what I am going to be talking about :)

So the story goes there is this man who was possed by a legion of demons. And for all of you who don't know what a legion is it is like 7,000 the number. In the old days the term came from a Roman Legion which was a group of 7,000 roman soilders. So ya just wanted to throw that in there. Any ways as the story goes this man got cast away, away from everybody else, rejected by everybody. Nobody could control this man for he was too strong for ANYBODY to chain him up so they basically banished him to a land away from the town. But Jesus came to him on a boat and moved in him and touched his life. Ok now time for the juicy meaty part of the story you better prepare yourselves because it is going to be sweet! God showed me a lot through it and I hope you get alot too! So in the beggining it talks about how this man was possed by demons. It just broke my heart I just see this man being overthrown by the world and captured and entangled in the devils snare. The world has just toss this man like a volleyball back and forth till he was all beated and bruised. And this hurt him so much this story says how this man was hurt it states and "night after night he cried out and cut him self with rocks" wow that really just moves my thoughts because I began to think I wonder how many people at MY school has the world beaten and bruised up till they were truly broken and crying out? My thoughts also running through my mind was this, this man was crying out yet NOBODY heard him because they cast him out. People cast this man out of their lives out of there society and defiently out of any kind of love he could ever recieve. THEY CAST HIM OUT hear me on this so many people in our world have been cast out beaten and tossed around. Nobody cares ever to comfort them or just encourage them which just breaks my heart. He was cast so far away from society it took a good boat ride to just get to where he was and back then they didn't have motorized boats so it too prolly 2 days to reach this place of desertment. The person that did come to this man was Jesus. He knew this man and he was drawn with COMPASSION to persue him and heal him and love upon him. Jesus met this broken man where he was at where everybody else abandoned and disowned him Jesus came and did the exact opposite. What also really compelled me was in the story it talks about in the beggining this man lived in the TOMBS tombs mean this a place where corspes are burried where the dead rot. He was a living man living amoungest the dead. Yet when Jesus came He renewed and gave life to this broken lost man. The story also says when this man was healed of the demons God cast the demons out on a herd of swine and they jumped in the lake and all drowned. Now I don't know about you but I just think it would be funny to see all these pigs jumping into a lake anyways back to my train of thought. What also really caught my eye was when Jesus asked him what his name was, Jesus of course already knew his name but the meaning behind this was incredible he made this man feel welcomed and loved. When the demons came out of him it states he was CLOTHED in a new mind! How fantastic is that? The disciples feared this man because of his new change. When God restores your life he gives you a new mind set and new ablity to believe and dream and BE FREE! A thing I just got from this story was not only was this man living amougnest the dead he was also living with swine. Swine viewed in the bible are

~unclean

~Fierce

~Flithy in habits and lifestyle

~wicked

The prodigal son also talks about a man squarrding off and living with swine. Well it was same case scene here except for the squarding part. He was living a horrible life until that glorious day when Jesus came and rescued his life. The story also states when the man saw Jesus coming upon shore HE FELL TO HIS knees. ( He just didn't get up and say whats up) But instead he feel to his knees that is just how broken and crack his life was. After everything happened this man asked Jesus if he could go with him but Jesus clearly said no because this man needed to go back to his village and preach and tell them about what Jesus had done in his life. Which for me would be his testimony and I am sure when he got back to the town he had one incredibly powerful word to share. It wasn't ever what he did in his life but it is what JESUS had done!

This story was incredibly moving in my life and wow it was some miracle eh? I hope you got as much as I did in this story how our GOD is a God who can heal, restore, and transform our lives radically! God Bless you :)