MOB

Mark 5: 1 – 20


Unruly crowds can show up any place at any time. Today, that's how the press is defining conservatives who disagree with the goals of the President's health plan.
If we call a large group of people a mob, how bad do you think it was for that one guy who was so filled with demons, that he called himself Mob?
Okay. So it wasn't the guy, but the demons inside him that spoke to Jesus, the issue here is that a riotous mob is a bad thing to have to deal with.

2 As Jesus got out of the boat, a madman from the cemetery came up to him.
3 He lived there among the tombs and graves. No one could restrain him—he couldn’t be chained, couldn’t be tied down.
4 He had been tied up many times with chains and ropes, but he broke the chains, snapped the ropes. No one was strong enough to tame him.
5 Night and day he roamed through the graves and the hills, screaming out and slashing himself with sharp stones.

This was a scary guy. Not only to the people who lived in the area who tried to restrain him, but he himself must have been frightened of what was happening to him.
Yet, as messed up and confusing his actions were, the demons within him saw and knew Jesus, and they were afraid of what He could do to them.

6 When he saw Jesus a long way off, he ran and bowed in worship before him—
7 then bellowed in protest, "What business do you have, Jesus, Son of the High God, messing with me? I swear to God, don’t give me a hard time!"
9 Jesus asked him, "Tell me your name." He replied, "My name is Mob. I’m a rioting mob."
10 Then he desperately begged Jesus not to banish them from the country.

We all know how this story ends. But, there was a time that we all may have felt the way that the mad man must have felt when our lives seemed to tumble and fall apart.
We didn't know how we were going to end up, but we prayed that it would end well.
When we first came to know God, we still weren't sure what was going to happen to us.
We knew what God looked like to us, and we were afraid of what He could do to us.
Thankfully, Jesus has treated us with the same compassion that He showed the mad man. He brought calmness to our “La Vida Loca”, which has helped us to live a better life.
The actions that God takes in our lives can lead us to follow him and fill us with the need to tell everyone about what He has done for us. Luckily, God wants us to tell everybody we know.

Anyway, I hope that this one made sense to you all.