..."go... and they went into the heard of swine..."
Our deepest and most troubling torments leave us at a single word, "Go." One Word and the darkness is overcome by the Light. One Word, and the demons flee. "Go!"
The passage is revealing. Two demon-possessed men - terrorizing all who might pass that way and personally possessed by the ruler of this world - wind up, after a single Word, completely set free.
And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not understood it.
No mention here as to how these men fell into their condition. It didn't matter to Jesus. He simply carried on with his mission: to set the captives free. Jesus doesn't become distracted with the "how and why's". His loving Goal of Redemption by-passes all that and goes for the root of the ailment. For he knows, when pigs fly, it means his children are restored to True Freedom and the right patterns of living will eventually follow.
The whole city came out to Jesus and, after they had met him, they begged him to leave their region. Some people prefer to live with their oppression. They say, "I know my demons, I like my demons. My demons are all I know and, after all, they're not hurting anybody." (Besides, let it be known, demons like humans. They are safe and make things - to the best of their toxic ability - as comfortable as they can and fool us into believing they really aren't that bad after all.) So, rather than to hear the Word that will rid them of their bondage - "Go!" - they beg him to leave their region.
The demons have fooled them into thinking there is nothing good on the other-side of the tomb.
True Freedom comes as we embrace the Word, as we press into the powerful Word that has the Kingdom Power to set us completely free. "Go!" And we rise - and rise again and again - into the Perfect Freedom in Christ, into the One who set us completely free by the power of his Word.
And that happens when pigs fly!
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