Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Mark 5:11-20
by: Andrew J. Camenga.
A natural reaction to that which you cannot control is fear. The people in the country could not control the demons, but they had learned to live with them in their midst. When Jesus demonstrated an ability to control that which they could not, the fear boiled over. Instead of seeing and welcoming the loving hand of God in their midst, they asked Jesus to leave. As God exerts control over those things that we cannot even understand, do we accept his presence or do we ask him to leave?