Date: Thursday, 15th February, 2024
Text: Mark 5:1-20
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
To wander is to move aimlessly from place to place. It is even worse when it is done in the dark. Darkness typifies ignorance, confusion and the presence of unclean or foul spirits. Wandering in the dark happens when someone lacks the presence of God and cannot find purpose or direction. Valuable time is inevitably lost.
In today’s text we come across the story of a man wandering in the dark. Jesus and his disciples came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, he was met by this man who came out of the cemetery there.
This man had many evil spirits in him and lived among the tombs. Nobody could keep him tied with chains anymore; many times his feet and his hands had been tied, but every time he broke the chains and smashed the irons on his feet. He was too strong for anyone to control him. Day and night he wandered among the tombs and through the hills, screaming and cutting himself with stones.
But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him- Mark 5:1-6.
He had been wandering aimlessly under the bondage of unseen dark forces. But the day he met Christ, he worshipped him; the light of God shone, darkness disappeared and he got his deliverance. He came to his right mind and his life found a new meaning.
He became an evangelist spreading the gospel of Christ in Decapolis (Ten Cities), testifying to the whole world what the Lord had done for him and bringing souls into God’s Kingdom. And all who heard it were amazed.
I don’t know how confused you may be right now, but as you bow to Jesus Christ in worship and total surrender, the glorious light of God will shine in your life and your turnaround will happen suddenly in Jesus name.
Prayer Nugget: Father of light, please shine your light in my life and give my life direction and meaning in Jesus name.