Discomfort in Healing
Sorry for the delay everybody. These last couple of weeks have been INSANE. I wasn't sure how exactly to go about this, but God said we have to not be so comfortable with our issues.
This man was literally going crazy. You know how crazy you have to be to live in a cemetery and your name aint Beetlejuice? He was living there. He was trying to kill himself in a dead place. Sometimes when I look at this text, I wonder what happened for him to be in that place. I don't believe that he was born in a place wanting to die. However, that can be absolutely possible, but sometimes we don't realize we're in that place until life hits us.
As humans, sometimes things happen to us that are so traumatizing and so devastating that we want to die even though our situations didn't kill us. For example, I have recently been confronted with a lot of my issues. It was brought to my attention that I had inherited a spirit from my father. The more I looked at the essence of who I was (yes--was because I am taking steps towards changing) I noticed how many generational curses I really inherited not only from father, but my mother as well. I thought I was hiding them from everybody around me, but I was dying inside. For some of us, we've become spiritual zombies. We have breath in our bodies, but we're brain dead.
We become stuck because of the seeds that were planted. The Bible says that we are to be fruitful and multiply, right? If you look back at the story of Jesus cursing the fig tree in Mark 11, the tree had leaves but no fruit. Plants that are overwatered don't produce fruit. They have old leave and new leaves growing at the same time. They also have root rot. If you don't know what root rot is, that's when the roots are unable to breathe because of the soil being too dense. So what happens is the seeds are being watered too much with hopes of that seeds producing fruit. It was a bad seed. Seeds of unforgivenesss, anger, hatred, low self esteem, can all be planted in you, and instead of growing fruit. It gets overwatered with life, and our roots begin to rot and our leaves begin to wilt and we start to die.
But we're going to call a spade a spade. Some of us have gotten so comfortable with our issues that we enable ourselves. We understand where the issues come from and we think that's enough. We have to hand them over to God so that we can live our full lives that God has promised us. You ever met someone and see them behave a certain way, and someone says "well such and such happened to them and they act like that because of that." This man had a gang of spirits in him. He had been living in the cemetery and everybody was like "oh yeah that's just that crazy guy that lives in the cemetery." They dismiss his issues as if they can't be handled. So his deliverance wasn't for him; it was for everyone who knew of the former him. Who knows what your healing can do for others?
Mark 5:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV)
A Demon-Possessed Man Healed
5 Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the [a]Gadarenes. 2 And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind [b]him, not even with chains, 4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.
This man was literally going crazy. You know how crazy you have to be to live in a cemetery and your name aint Beetlejuice? He was living there. He was trying to kill himself in a dead place. Sometimes when I look at this text, I wonder what happened for him to be in that place. I don't believe that he was born in a place wanting to die. However, that can be absolutely possible, but sometimes we don't realize we're in that place until life hits us.
As humans, sometimes things happen to us that are so traumatizing and so devastating that we want to die even though our situations didn't kill us. For example, I have recently been confronted with a lot of my issues. It was brought to my attention that I had inherited a spirit from my father. The more I looked at the essence of who I was (yes--was because I am taking steps towards changing) I noticed how many generational curses I really inherited not only from father, but my mother as well. I thought I was hiding them from everybody around me, but I was dying inside. For some of us, we've become spiritual zombies. We have breath in our bodies, but we're brain dead.
We become stuck because of the seeds that were planted. The Bible says that we are to be fruitful and multiply, right? If you look back at the story of Jesus cursing the fig tree in Mark 11, the tree had leaves but no fruit. Plants that are overwatered don't produce fruit. They have old leave and new leaves growing at the same time. They also have root rot. If you don't know what root rot is, that's when the roots are unable to breathe because of the soil being too dense. So what happens is the seeds are being watered too much with hopes of that seeds producing fruit. It was a bad seed. Seeds of unforgivenesss, anger, hatred, low self esteem, can all be planted in you, and instead of growing fruit. It gets overwatered with life, and our roots begin to rot and our leaves begin to wilt and we start to die.
Mark 5:6-8 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him. 7 And he cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore[a] You by God that You do not torment me.”
8 For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!”
In spite of the bad seeds that were planted in him, the man still recognized Jesus. He recognized Him so much so that he worshipped Him. Some of us know who Jesus is in spite of our pain because we know that He's able to heal, we know that He's able to deliver, and we know that He's able to set free. Mark 5:9-20 New King James Version (NKJV)
9 Then He asked him, “What is your name?”
And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” 10 Also he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country.
11 Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains. 12 So all the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us to the swine, that we may enter them.” 13 And [a]at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea.
14 So those who fed the swine fled, and they told it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had happened. 15 Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. 16 And those who saw it told them how it happened to him who had been demon-possessed, and about the swine. 17 Then they began to plead with Him to depart from their region.
18 And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed begged Him that he might be with Him. 19 However, Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.” 20 And he departed and began to proclaim in [b]Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.
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