“Then Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ ‘My name is Legion,’ he replied, ‘for we are many.’”
Mark 5:9
If Jesus doesn’t possess us, a multitude of this world’s powers will. The man from the story in Mark 5 said his name was “Legion,” referring to the many demons within him. When Jesus has us in His keeping, we are one with Him and at peace with ourselves. “In him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17). “‘For in him we live and move and have our being’” (Acts 17:28). “The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).
Without Jesus, life falls apart. He’s the glue, the magnet, the center of gravity. The circumstances of our lives are like spokes of a wheel, and Christ is like the sprocket securing it all. He is amazing!
Do you truly believe all things hold together in Jesus, that the Spirit in you is greater than the spirit in the world? Bring to Him anything that has its grip on you; He will drive it out.
Pray, “Dear Lord and Father of mankind,/ Forgive our foolish ways;/ Reclothe us in our rightful mind,/ In purer lives thy service find,/ in deeper reverence, praise” (John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872).
Without Jesus, life falls apart. He’s the glue, the magnet, the center of gravity. The circumstances of our lives are like spokes of a wheel, and Christ is like the sprocket securing it all. He is amazing!
Do you truly believe all things hold together in Jesus, that the Spirit in you is greater than the spirit in the world? Bring to Him anything that has its grip on you; He will drive it out.
Pray, “Dear Lord and Father of mankind,/ Forgive our foolish ways;/ Reclothe us in our rightful mind,/ In purer lives thy service find,/ in deeper reverence, praise” (John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872).
Scripture Focus
Mark 5:1-20
Insight
“If Christ as Lord is the center of our lives, the circumference will take care of itself.” (author unknown)
Bible In A Year
- Genesis 25-26
- Psalm 13
- Matthew 21