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February 2022

He's Gone Insane

2/18/2022

 
When His family heard what was happening, they tried 
to take Jesus away. "He's out of his mind," they said.  
Mark 3:21 NLT

That’s what Jesus' family said about Him... 

"He's lost His mind!" Shortly after Jesus began to travel around the countryside teaching in the local houses of worship, healing the sick and restoring the limbs of those who were crippled, huge crowds began to form. No one had ever seen anything like it. "A miracle worker has arrived!" the people were saying. There was excitement in the air. But His loved ones were not at all happy. They were quite upset.

I found it interesting how those who have deep faith in God and want to serve Him by loving their neighbors and doing good to them, could encounter opposition. Yet this is what happened with Jesus. His own family thought He was losing His mind. So they came to grab hold of Him and take Him away.

This holy and hardworking thirty year old who had always shown himself to be of good character, was thought to have gone crazy. How ironic for this to happen. You would think that Jesus would have been welcomed and cheered, and He was by many. But not with everyone. Right from the outset the religious leaders perceived Jesus to be a threat and plotted to kill Him.

I was able to relate to this because many think the same way about me. While some are happy with the changes in my life and are glad God has since filled my heart and mind with His peace, this is not the case with everyone. There has been opposition. I've had my share of doubters and haters. 

There are those who think I am just as confused and crazy today as I was in the past. They view my faith in God and my belief that He has forgiven me of all my sins and crimes as nothing more than a delusion. In their eyes I was a murderer and a madman then, and I am still that same person today.

People are free to believe what they wish. I am not in the least bit upset by this. I take their disbelief gracefully. For many it is easier to doubt than to believe. It is easier to voice scorn than to express satisfaction at seeing a soul restored to wholeness.

For those in society who refuse to accept me as a "new creation" in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17) and think I am as crazy today as I was those forty years ago, I'm okay with it. I don't live by peoples' opinions of me, but by what God's Word says. He has declared me as forgiven. "David, my son, I forgive you."


D. B.

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