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Friday... We each see things from different perspectives.


Mark 5:19 (NLT), "But Jesus said, 'Now go home to your family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been."

Friday... We each see things from different perspectives.

Have you found that true, even in your friends and you own family?


Now there was this guy who had so many evil spirits in him that his name was Legion and he came to Jesus and in Mark 5:8 (NLT) Jesus said to the spirit, "Come out of the man, you evil spirit." and they begged to be sent into some pigs nearby.

Verse 13 says, "So Jesus gave them permission. Those evil spirits came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the entire herd of about 2,000 pigs plunged into the lake and drowned in the water."

It is important to see that two things happened here. One, there was this man who had been possessed by a legion of spirits and two, there were 2,000 pigs that had plunged into a lake and they were killed. 

Now a crowd from town came out and verse 17 says, "And the crowd began pleading with Jesus to go away and leave them alone." and the demon possessed man pleaded to go with him. Verse 19 said, "But Jesus said, 'Now go home to your family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been." We each see things from different perspectives.

Now later in this chapter there was this father who came to Jesus and asked him to come home with him. It seems that his twelve year old daughter was very sick and he wanted Jesus to come with him and heal his daughter so off they go. But on the way, someone came and told them that the daughter had died so they said in verse 35b, "Your daughter is dead. There's no use troubling the Teacher now." So that was one perspective. And then verse 36 says, "But Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, 'Don't be afraid. Just have faith." So they kept going, and that was the other perspective.

Here verses 38-40a says, "When they came to the home of of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw much commotions and weeping and wailing. He went inside and asked, 'Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn't dead; she's only asleep.' The crowd laughed at him." And that is a perspective that so many today have. Verse 40a in The Message says, "Provoked to sarcasm, they told him he didn't know what he was talking about."

So Jesus didn't stop. He didn't let them get to him and he went into the room with a selected group of people. Verses 41-42 (NLT) says, "Holding her hand, he said to her, 'Talitha koum,' which means, 'Little girl, get up!' And the girl, who was twelve years old, immediately stood up and walked around! They were overwhelmed and totally amazed."

Yes, we each see things from different perspectives. And we have a choice, so let' make sure we have the right perspective even if it isn't the popular one. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



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