The next day, when Jesus, Peter, John, and James had come down from the mountain, a large crowd met Jesus. A man from the crowd shouted, “Teacher, I beg you to take a look at my son, my only child. Look, a spirit seizes him and, without any warning, he screams. It shakes him and causes him to foam at the mouth. It tortures him and rarely leaves him alone. I begged your disciples to throw it out, but they couldn’t.” Jesus answered, “You faithless and crooked generation, how long will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.” While he was coming, the demon threw him down and shook him violently. Jesus spoke harshly to the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father. Everyone was overwhelmed by God’s greatness. (Luke 9:37-43a, CEB)
Why do you follow Jesus?
Is it to get healed from your demons?
Is it because you have seen great things and want some of that too?
When we follow to get something, we will not get that.
Why couldn’t the disciples cast out the demon? The reading doesn’t say. So we can conjecture. Maybe their faith wasn’t strong enough, maybe they didn’t think they could do it as well as Jesus, and the demon could sense that and didn’t listen.
How many times do we fail because we think we will fail?
If we could see what God sees, we would not lose faith.
Believe and do great things than these…
Loving People. Loving God.
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