Comments on: Mark 5:1-20 (NIV) http://findinggrace.com/blog/2007/11/01/mark-51-20-niv/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:07:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dave hensleigh http://findinggrace.com/blog/2007/11/01/mark-51-20-niv/#comment-574 dave hensleigh Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:54:48 +0000 http://findinggrace.com/blog/2007/11/01/mark-51-20-niv/#comment-574 There were many...like several hundred of the demons? Their objective was to wound and kill. Notice exactly what Jesus told the guy to go and say. It is so simple to tell someone else how good God has been tp me and what mercy HE has shown me. There were many…like several hundred of the demons?
Their objective was to wound and kill.

Notice exactly what Jesus told the guy to go and say. It is so simple to tell someone else how good God has been tp me and what mercy HE has shown me.

]]> By: Debbie http://findinggrace.com/blog/2007/11/01/mark-51-20-niv/#comment-573 Debbie Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:54:46 +0000 http://findinggrace.com/blog/2007/11/01/mark-51-20-niv/#comment-573 Wow. How many times have I missed out on understanding the power of God around me because I was uncomfortable with the way someone else experienced it? I can think, from my comfortable, 21st century perspective, that I would have welcomed Jesus to stay in my community. But, He had just sent a pretty large number of hogs off a cliff (someone's livelyhood? someone's supper? Were the Geresenes Jewish? Could they eat pigs?). And it would be pretty unsettling to see a dirty, cut up, scabby outcast sitting calmly at Jesus feet. This passage makes me pray to have eyes that will be willing to see God at work around me in any way He wants to be at work. Wow. How many times have I missed out on understanding the power of God around me because I was uncomfortable with the way someone else experienced it? I can think, from my comfortable, 21st century perspective, that I would have welcomed Jesus to stay in my community. But, He had just sent a pretty large number of hogs off a cliff (someone’s livelyhood? someone’s supper? Were the Geresenes Jewish? Could they eat pigs?). And it would be pretty unsettling to see a dirty, cut up, scabby outcast sitting calmly at Jesus feet.
This passage makes me pray to have eyes that will be willing to see God at work around me in any way He wants to be at work.

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