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Transformation or pigs?

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“They saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind.”  Mark 5:15

There is no temperament Jesus cannot control.  There is no madness he cannot soothe.  There is no darkness he cannot illuminate.  There is no chain he cannot break.  There is no raving he cannot calm.  There is no shame he cannot dignify.  There is no nakedness he cannot clothe.  There is no legion he cannot command.

And when he proved his power, restoring this dear man who had suffered so much for so long, sending the demons into the nearby herd of pigs, the people “began to beg Jesus to depart from their region” (Mark 5:17).

Jesus forced on them a choice — his transformation or their pigs?  They preferred their pigs.  Sure, their world was dysfunctional.  But it was theirs.  It was familiar.  They preferred it undisturbed.

This passage in the Bible has nothing to say to us today.

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