"My name is Legion, for we are many."
-- Mark 5:9
Sometimes we feel we are facing (a) Legion. Our circumstances or problems or failures seem insurmountable. We have tried all we know to do. And yet, we are unable to produce the power to overcome. It seems we cannot muster the will to battle another day.
Many had tried to subdue the man we read about in Mark 5:1-20. They tried to control him. They tried to bind him. They tried to ignore him. All attempts failed. It is one of the stranger stories in a book filled with strange stories. A possessed man (soon to be free)... a herd of pigs (soon to be both possessed and drowned)... frustrated people (soon to be in awe) ... and a God who is (as always) in control.
And that is really the point. God is in control. He is in control of demoniacs and pig herds. He is in control of your situation and mine.
What is it that you face today? You have bound it and fought it; you have attempted both to control and ignore it. Yet it is there. It is real. And it is affecting the way you live. It is stealing your sense of joy and hindering your purpose.
Jesus is the undefeated champion who wants to fight for you. Ask him. He will come through. He is in control. (Sorry pigs!)
Not by might, nor by by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord...
-- Zechariah 4:6
God, it is out of my control, I place it in your powerful hands...
For now...
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