A Right Mind
Photo by Milad Fakurian, from Unsplash.
Have you ever experienced being out of your mind? What is the experience of feeling like you are not of sound mind?
In times of torment, pressure, hardship, trail and difficulties, we can be cloudy headed and feel like we are not of sound mind. Our circumstances can bewilder and clutter our minds. The enemy would love to consume our minds with muddled futility, unrest, and a spirit of confusion and discord. We can experience living in a haze and can feel disoriented and at a loss.
In Mark chapter five, Jesus cast out demons from a man in the country of the Gerasenes. After Jesus delivered the man from his afflictions, Mark’s Gospel tells us, “And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.” (Mark 5:15, ESV).
When we are out of our right mind, we need Jesus to put us at peace so that we can be found “sitting and clothed and in our right mind”, like this formerly demon-possessed man. As with this man, only Jesus can restore us when we are consumed by the enemy, when we are cast out, when we are afflicted in our spirit, desiring self harm, naked, exposed, and destitute—living bound and banished among the dead and out of our minds.
May we find the wholeness and restoration we need as come to Jesus and experience Jesus’ rescue and restoration as he puts us back in our right mind.
A Collect for Grace: “O Lord, our heavenly Father, almighty and everlasting God, you have brought us safely to the beginning of this day: Defend us by your mighty power, that we may not fall into sin nor run into any danger; and that, guided by your Spirit, we may do what is righteous in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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